Icap’s announcement on October that it was buying Traiana, a held company that specializes in automated post-trade processing services, triggered some talk that the broker was looking to challenge CLS, the regulator-sponsored settlement utility. Not surprisingly, Icap was swift to play this down.
The price paid – $238 million in cash and $9 million in shares – initially looks expensive. Traiana is expected to post annual revenue to January 31 2008 of just $15 million. Icap, though, expects the acquisition to be adjusted earnings enhancing in three years.
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