The highest-ranked newcomer via growth to this year's list is ICAP, the world's largest interdealer broker.
De Sena, currently a managing director at London-based brokerage firm ICAP, funded Spartan Race and only recently accepted outside funding.
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Walter Zimmermann, an energy broker with United ICAP, worked from his home in Pennsylvania, about 1, 800 feet above sea level.
The global credit crunch seems to have helped ICAP (other-otc: IAPLY - news - people ) somewhat.
They include existing trading platforms such as Bloomberg, new entrants including Javelin Capital Markets, and interdealer brokerages such as ICAP.
ICAP, the biggest inter-dealer broker, has two such platforms ready to go.
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Analysts reporting to Thomson IBES expect ICAP to increase profits at an annual clip of 12% over the next three to five years.
Lou Crandall of Wrightson ICAP, a research firm, reckons that half of those reserves have ended up with the American subsidiaries of foreign-owned banks.
Brian LaRose, technical analyst at United-ICAP, noted several levels of support gold prices need to hold to avoid seeing a sharp break or change in trend.
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Rates recovered strongly in June, according to ICAP, partly because large vessels were in demand for storage, as oil companies waited for crude prices to strengthen.
It has expanded with aggregated retail FX trades in a deal with Traiana, an ICAP subsidiary, credit derivatives settlement with DTCC and nondeliverable forwards and FX options.
The global credit crunch seems to have helped ICAP somewhat.
ICAP-owned trading platform EBS, which handles flows from the biggest banks in the business, said its daily average currency trading volumes in January rebounded 22% from a year earlier and 54% from December.
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Analysts at ICAP Shipping Research in London shrug off the idea that there will be a glut, since shipments of cheap Australian coal and iron ore to China have for years been constrained by a lack of big ships.
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