ICAP Energy is an innovator leader in the energy and shipping industries, providing full-service and over the counter broking and advisory capabilities to a broad spectrum of businesses throughout the world.
The group, which is a unit of ICAP plc, the world’s premier electronic and voice interdealer brokers, has more than 300 staff located across the globe in London, North America, Amsterdam, Bergen, Singapore, and Sydney. ICAP Energy had 2007 revenues of £101 million ($202 million).
ICAP Energy offers real-time price discovery and execution services in crude oil and oil products, electricity, natural gas, coal, base and precious metals, emission credits, freight and weather derivative and physical products.
New members of the ICAP Energy family include Hyde and Capital Shipbrokers, which offer services in shipping and boating (such as dry cargo chartering, sales and purchase), electronic and voice freight derivatives, research, yacht-broking and web design, tanker chartering in both crude and product markets, and sales and purchasing broking teams. ICAP Hyde operates out of London, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Shanghai, Gibraltar and Singapore.
ICAP Energy was named “Broker of the Year” in 2008 by Energy RISK magazine in a poll of over 1,500 market participants. The group garnered 1st place commendations in 24 categories and 2nd place rankings in 18.
ICAP is the world’s premier voice and electronic interdealer broker and the source of global market information and commentary for professionals in the international financial markets. The Group is active in the wholesale markets in interest rates, credit, energy, foreign exchange and equity derivatives. ICAP has an average daily transaction volume in excess of $1.5 trillion, more than 60% of which is electronic. ICAP plc was added to the FTSE 100 Index on 30 June 2006. For more information go to www.icap.com.