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Home > About the Group

About the Group

ICAP is the world’s premier voice and electronic interdealer broker, delivering specialist intermediary broking services to trading professionals in the wholesale financial markets. The group covers a very broad range of OTC (over-the-counter) financial products and services in Energy, Foreign Exchange, Interest Rates, Credit, Equity markets; as well as data, commentary and indices.

We are active in both established and emerging markets. Our reach and organisation are global, while providing a local response to customer needs. Our electronic networks deliver global connectivity to customers seeking unparalleled liquidity and flow in an orderly marketplace.

Our vision is to create the global exchange for OTC financial products and to build a global brand in wholesale financial services.  We believe that we can best provide the service our customers need by combining the strengths of our people together with technology – and by doing so set the standard of our industry.

ICAP is:

Open and direct

  • Our relationships with our customers, shareholders, staff and all other stakeholders are based on candour, clarity and transparency

Responsive

  • We place our customers at the heart of our business. As our customers change and adapt to the opportunities they identify in a rapidly evolving marketplace, our success is based on our ability to move quickly in response to those changes

Customer-driven

  • With our comprehensive understanding of the challenges and pressures our customers face we work in partnership with them and leverage our expertise to deliver efficient and effective local, regional and global solutions

Innovative

  • We believe that innovation is driven by people and technology, working together. ICAP is characterised by the inventiveness of its people. We recognise and reward new ideas, approaches and applications and strive to set new standards of innovation, best practice and process.

ICAP provides a specialist service by matching up buyers and sellers in the wholesale financial markets. Our customers include investment and commercial banks and they pay a commission to use us to complete a transaction. ICAP covers a very broad range of OTC (over-the-counter) financial products and services in energy, foreign exchange, interest rates, credit and equity markets; as well as data and commentary.

We are active in both established and emerging markets and our electronic networks deliver global connectivity to customers. ICAP is characterised by the inventiveness of its people and we recognise and reward new ideas, approaches and applications. We believe that the greatest opportunities are found by people and technology working together. Our customers are at the heart of our business and we set new standards of service by working in partnership with them.

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