TP ICAP explained

TP ICAP Group plc
Type:Public
Foundation:1971
Founder:Derek Tullett[1]
Location:London, England, UK
Key People:Richard Berliand (Chairman)
Nicolas Breteau (CEO)
Industry:Banking
Revenue: £2,191 million (2023)[2]
Operating Income: £128 million (2023)
Net Income: £76 million (2023)
Num Employees:5,300 (2023)[3]

TP ICAP Group plc is a financial services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Its stock is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

History

The company was founded by Derek Tullett in 1971 as a foreign exchange broker trading as Tullett & Riley.[4] During the 1970s and 1980s, it opened a number of overseas offices and started its own computer graphical analysis company of financial futures, options and FX rates (Futrend Ltd). In 1999 the Company merged with Liberty Brokerage to create Tullett Liberty.[4]

In early 2003, the company was bought by Collins Stewart plc, a financial services company, creating Collins Stewart Tullett plc.[4] In October 2004, the company acquired Prebon Yamane, a broking business formed in 1990 following the merger of three leading London-based money broking businesses (Babcock & Brown, Kirkland-Whittaker and Fulton Prebon)[4] and had adopted that name in acknowledgement of the firm's close business alliance with the Tokyo-based Yamane Group.[4] In December 2006, the group separated into two separate entities: Collins Stewart (stockbroking) and Tullett Prebon (moneybroking).[5] The company acquired Chapdelaine, a US broker, in January 2007 and integrated the business into its existing operations.[6]

In September 2012, the company was asked to help the Financial Services Authority's investigation into malpractice across the City of London, with particular interest in the LIBOR interest rate fixing. In 2014, Terry Smith, chief executive of Tullett Prebon PLC, left the London-based brokerage firm to work full-time at the privately owned asset-management firm that he started in 2010.[7] He was succeeded by John Phizackerley in September 2014. Phizackerley, who preferred to be called "Phiz", started out as a mining engineer with Anglo American and was a former Lehman Brothers and then Nomura executive.[8] In November 2015, the company agreed to terms with ICAP (now known as NEX Group) to acquire their global hybrid voice broking and information business.[9] Using the name of the acquired business the company changed its name from Tullett Prebon plc to TP ICAP plc on 30 December 2016.[10] On 10 July 2018, Nicolas Breteau was appointed as group chief executive officer of TP ICAP.[11]

On 24 March 2021, TP ICAP announced the completion of its acquisition of Liquidnet.[12]

In March 2022, the Financial Times reported that an activist investor and hedge fund, Phase 2 Partners, was urging the board to find a buyer for the company in order to unlock shareholder value.[13]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Michael Fallon becomes business minister. The Telegraph. 5 September 2012. 14 March 2023.
  2. Web site: Preliminary Results 2023. TP ICAP. 12 March 2024.
  3. Web site: Careers. TP ICAP. 18 February 2023.
  4. Web site: Tullett Prebon Interdealer Broking History. tullettprebon.com. 3 April 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080809025742/http://www.tullettprebon.com/investor_about.aspx. 9 August 2008.
  5. Web site: Login. timesonline.co.uk. 3 April 2015.
  6. Web site: Tullett Prebon profit halves, sees current market as ideal. Simon Kennedy. MarketWatch. 3 April 2015.
  7. Web site: Tullett Prebon CEO Plans to Leave Firm As Soon As This Month. Jenny Strasburg. 3 June 2014. WSJ. 3 April 2015.
  8. Web site: Tullett Prebon names Phizackerley as chief executive officer. Reuters UK. 3 April 2015.
  9. Web site: Tullett to Acquire ICAP's Global Hybrid Voice Broking Business. Bloomberg. 2015-11-11.
  10. Web site: Tullett Prebon Change Of Name To TP ICAP. Mondo Visione. 3 January 2017.
  11. Web site: Trading Update and Directorate Change. TP ICAP. 10 July 2018.
  12. Web site: ICAP plc to acquire Liquidnet for up to £537 million. 9 October 2020. Digital Market News.
  13. News: Stafford . Philip . 2022-03-23 . US activist urges TP ICAP to sell . Financial Times . 2022-04-26.
  14. Web site: Tullett Prebon Electronic And Voice Interdealer Broker. tullettprebon.com. 3 April 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130915142042/http://www.tullettprebon.com/index.aspx. 15 September 2013.
  15. Web site: OTC Data - Financial Information Services - Tullett Prebon. tpinformation.com. 3 April 2015.
  16. Web site: ICAP plc 2007 Annual Report p2 ICAP and the OTC markets . Miranda.hemscott.com . 18 April 2011.
  17. Book: Madhumathi, R. . Derivatives and Risk Management. 57. 978-8131759936. Pearson. 2012.
  18. Web site: Tullett Prebon snaps up PVM Oil. pvmoil.co.uk. 9 May 2014.
  19. Web site: World's largest interdealer broker TP Icap grabs rival Coex Partners. coexpartners.com. 30 November 2017.