Icap: FX helps drive growth at Icap

The market, it is said, is always right, but the performance of Icap’s share price is seemingly at odds with the company’s financial growth. Of course, Icap’s shares have been caught up with the general malaise affecting global equity valuations in general and financial stocks in particular but as the company pointed out in an interim management statement issued in mid-July, it has continued to benefit as a result of the continuing volatility in financial markets.

“Group revenue (excluding the recent Link acquisition) grew by 15% in the quarter ended June 30, 2008 compared with the same period in the previous year,” Icap said in a press release, adding: “Icap has a broadly diversified revenue base and in many markets the group benefited from higher than average levels of volatility. The increase in electronic broking revenue was particularly strong, especially in foreign exchange.”

According to Icap, the average daily spot FX volume on its EBS platform was $213.4

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