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Tullett Prebon Europe - OTF - Madrid

A Madrid-based Organised Trading Facility (OTF) operated under the Tullett Prebon Europe brand within the TP ICAP group.

Last updated September 27, 2026

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Overview

Tullett Prebon Europe - OTF - Madrid is a Spanish Organised Trading Facility (OTF) operated under the Tullett Prebon Europe brand, which sits within the TP ICAP group. An OTF is a category of multilateral trading venue introduced in the European Union under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) framework; it allows an investment firm or market operator to bring together multiple third-party buying and selling interests in financial instruments in a way that results in a contract. The Madrid entity is therefore a regulated trading venue rather than a consumer-facing product brand, and its identity is bound up with the wider Tullett Prebon inter-dealer broking and TP ICAP market-infrastructure business. TP ICAP describes itself as a provider of liquidity and data solutions across financial and commodity markets. Its public brand architecture groups activities into Liquidity Solutions (financial markets and energy & commodities markets, each spanning price discovery, trade execution and post-trade solutions), Agency Execution (block, algorithmic and programme trading, plus trade advisory and execution), and Data Solutions (OTC pricing data, benchmarks and indices, bespoke benchmarks, risk and regulatory services, evidential and consensus pricing, post-trade analytics and transaction cost analysis). The Tullett Prebon name is one of the group's long-established broking brands, historically associated with inter-dealer voice and hybrid broking, and it is used for regulated venues such as this Madrid OTF. The Madrid OTF is part of the Tullett Prebon Europe regulated-venue footprint, which the group has used to offer organised trading in instruments such as interest-rate, credit, FX and related derivatives and securities. Because it is an OTF, the venue operates under Spanish and EU regulatory permissions and is subject to MiFID II conduct, transparency and best-execution requirements. Its clients are typically professional counterparties — banks, dealers, funds and other eligible institutions — rather than retail investors. Commercially, the entity is a small but structurally important piece of the TP ICAP group: it extends the group's European venue coverage into Spain and complements its London, Paris and other European regulated-market operations. It is not separately listed; it is a subsidiary within TP ICAP Group plc, whose shares trade on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker TCAP. Public information specifically about the Madrid OTF is limited, and the venue is best understood as part of the Tullett Prebon Europe / TP ICAP regulated-venue family rather than as a standalone consumer brand.

History

Tullett Prebon Europe - OTF - Madrid belongs to the Tullett Prebon family of inter-dealer broking businesses, which became part of TP ICAP. Tullett Prebon traces its roots to the London inter-dealer broking market, where the Tullett and Prebon names were established broking houses before merging. The combined firm grew into one of the world's largest inter-dealer brokers, intermediating trades between banks and dealers in money markets, fixed income, FX, credit, equities and derivatives. The modern regulatory shape of the business was set by the European Union's MiFID II framework, which took effect in 2018 and created the Organised Trading Facility (OTF) category alongside regulated markets and multilateral trading facilities (MTFs). OTFs were designed to bring previously bilateral or voice-brokered over-the-counter trading into a regulated multilateral venue, with obligations around transparency, best execution and conduct. Inter-dealer brokers such as Tullett Prebon used OTFs to continue offering organised, hybrid voice-and-electronic broking within the new rulebook. In 2016 Tullett Prebon agreed to acquire the global hybrid voice broking and information business of ICAP, and the enlarged group was renamed TP ICAP. That transaction consolidated several well-known broking brands — including Tullett Prebon, ICAP, PVM, Mirexa and others — under one listed holding company, TP ICAP Group plc, which trades on the London Stock Exchange. Within that structure, Tullett Prebon Europe operates regulated venues across European jurisdictions, and the Madrid OTF is one of the Spanish entities in that footprint. The Madrid OTF is therefore a product of two histories: the long evolution of Tullett Prebon as a broking brand, and the post-MiFID II restructuring of European trading venues. It exists to give professional counterparties a regulated multilateral venue for instruments that the group brokers, and it sits alongside the group's other European OTFs and MTFs. Public disclosure about the Madrid entity specifically is sparse; it appears in regulatory registers and in Wikidata as an Organised Trading Facility, and its commercial identity is inseparable from the Tullett Prebon Europe and TP ICAP brands.

  • MiFID II takes effect in the EU, creating the Organised Trading Facility (OTF) category under which the Madrid venue operates.

  • Tullett Prebon agrees to acquire ICAP's global hybrid voice broking and information business; the enlarged group becomes TP ICAP.

  • Tullett Prebon Europe - OTF - Madrid is recorded as an Organised Trading Facility in public data sources such as Wikidata.

Products and positioning

A regulated European multilateral trading venue within the Tullett Prebon Europe / TP ICAP group, serving professional counterparties.

  • Organised Trading Facility (OTF) venue

    A regulated multilateral trading venue for professional counterparties, operated in Madrid under the Tullett Prebon Europe brand.

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