Tullett Prebon Securities - OTF

Tullett Prebon Securities - OTF is a UK-based organised trading facility (OTF) that sits within the TP ICAP group, the world's largest inter-dealer broker. An OTF is a category of multilateral trading venue introduced in the European Union under MiFID II and retained in UK regulation after Brexit; it allows an operator to bring together multiple third-party buying and selling interests in financial instruments in a discretionary manner, subject to conduct and transparency rules. Tullett Prebon Securities - OTF therefore functions as a regulated execution venue rather than as a consumer-facing brand. The venue carries the Tullett Prebon name, one of the most established names in inter-dealer broking. Tullett Prebon plc was a London-listed wholesale broker that merged with ICAP's global broking business in 2016 to form TP ICAP, and the Tullett Prebon brand has continued to be used across parts of the enlarged group's broking and venue operations. Within TP ICAP, the group's brands span liquidity solutions, financial markets price discovery and trade execution, post-trade solutions, energy and commodities markets, agency execution, and data solutions, including OTC pricing data, benchmarks and indices, and risk and regulatory services. As an OTF, Tullett Prebon Securities - OTF is part of the regulated market infrastructure layer of the group. It is relevant to institutional clients — banks, dealers, funds and other professional counterparties — rather than to retail investors. Its regulatory status means it appears in TP ICAP's regulatory hub and in public registers of trading venues, and its operations are governed by UK conduct, best-execution and transparency requirements applicable to organised trading facilities. Because the entity is a venue rather than a standalone listed company, its financial results are consolidated within TP ICAP Group plc, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange. The OTF's role is to provide an additional, regulated execution channel alongside TP ICAP's voice broking, hybrid and electronic broking businesses, supporting price discovery and trade execution in wholesale markets.

Tullett Prebon Securities - OTF takes its name from Tullett Prebon, one of the longest-standing names in London inter-dealer broking. Tullett Prebon plc grew out of the merger of Tullett & Tokyo Liberty and Prebon Yamane in the early 2000s and became a major London-listed wholesale broker specialising in voice and hybrid broking across rates, credit, equities, energy and commodities. In 2016 Tullett Prebon acquired ICAP's global broking business, and the enlarged group was renamed TP ICAP, creating the world's largest inter-dealer broker. Following that combination, TP ICAP organised its activities around several brands and business lines, including liquidity solutions, financial markets price discovery and trade execution, post-trade solutions, energy and commodities markets, agency execution, and data solutions such as OTC pricing data, benchmarks and indices, and risk and regulatory services. Within this structure, regulated execution venues form part of the group's market infrastructure offering. The OTF category itself was created in the European Union under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), which took effect in 2018. OTFs were designed to capture organised multilateral trading that did not fit the regulated market or multilateral trading facility (MTF) categories, and to bring previously bilateral or voice-brokered activity into a regulated multilateral framework with discretion for the operator. After the United Kingdom left the European Union, the OTF regime was retained in UK law, and UK-authorised OTFs such as Tullett Prebon Securities - OTF continue to operate under the UK regulatory framework. Tullett Prebon Securities - OTF therefore represents the adaptation of the Tullett Prebon broking heritage to the post-MiFID II regulatory environment: a venue that allows TP ICAP to operate a discretionary multilateral trading facility for wholesale financial instruments under the Tullett Prebon name. As a subsidiary venue rather than a listed company, it does not publish standalone financial statements; its activities are consolidated within TP ICAP Group plc, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange and reports on its brands, strategy and regulatory commitments through its corporate and regulatory hub pages.

• Tullett Prebon plc emerges from the merger of Tullett & Tokyo Liberty and Prebon Yamane, establishing the Tullett Prebon broking name.

• Tullett Prebon acquires ICAP's global broking business; the enlarged group is renamed TP ICAP.

• MiFID II takes effect in the EU, creating the organised trading facility (OTF) category.

• The UK retains the OTF regime after Brexit, under which UK-authorised OTFs such as Tullett Prebon Securities - OTF operate.

A regulated wholesale trading venue within TP ICAP, serving professional counterparties rather than retail clients.

• Organised trading facility (OTF)

  A regulated multilateral trading venue for wholesale financial instruments, operated under the Tullett Prebon name within TP ICAP.

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2. 2Who We Are | TP ICAPtpicap.com
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4. 4Our Strategy | TP ICAPtpicap.com
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