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ICAP company history timeline

1998

Exco plc acquired the wholesale broking operations of IPGL in a reverse takeover in October 1998 and changed its name to Intercapital plc.

In November 1998, Garban was demerged from United Business Media plc.

1999

The company was founded on September 9, 1999 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.“

ICAP, formerly Garban-Intercapital plc, was formed in September 1999 by the merger of Garban plc and Intercapital plc.

2003

ICAP uses the BrokerTec platform, which it acquired in 2003, for its electronic trading.

2006

In 2006 it bought EBS, a major trading platform for foreign exchange.

2007

On 5 December 2007, ICAP acquired Traiana, Inc. for $247 million (£121 million). Traiana is a provider of post-trade processing, client servicing, and trading partner integration solutions for financial institutions.

2009

In September 2009, ICAP and insurance intermediary Jardine Lloyd Thompson closed their joint venture vehicle, ICAP-JLT Ltd, after disappointing trading volume.

ICAP was buffeted by competition from Dealerweb, a hybrid electronic and voice broker, in 2009, losing 85 percent of its mortgage bond business over a period of six weeks.

2010

31, 2010, ICAP announced it would launch an electronic market for Euro interest rate swaps in an effort to reduce operational and system risk in the OTC derivatives markets.

2012

ICAP restructured its electronic division in March of 2012, separating the reporting lines for the FX and fixed income businesses.

↑ ICAP’s iSwap wins OTC Trading Platform of the Year in Risk Awards 2012.

2013

ICAP sold a 12 percent stake in Traiana in January 2013 to a group of seven of its largest customers.

On June 3, 2013, ICAP began trading in Sterling (GBP) interest rate swaps on its electronic interest rate derivative platform.

ICAP SEF (US) LLC, was granted temporary registration as of September 27, 2013.

2014

The same year, the firm eliminated about 400 jobs at its broking unit in 2014 to cut costs.

2015

In April 2015, BATS Chi-X Europe and ICAP announced new services which, when combined, will enable market participants to trade cleared equity index Exchange for Physical (EFP) transactions anonymously.

In September of 2015 ICAP confirmed that it was pulling out of the Wholesale Markets Brokers Association Americas, an industry advocacy group it helped form six years earlier.

2022

ANNOTATION Clarification a second filed AP01 was registered on 17/05/2022.

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