Nobody will accuse them of marrying in haste û the two parties first put pen to paper four years ago and have been crawling towards an agreement ever since. In the meantime, Icap's biggest rival, Tullett Prebon, signed up with Shanghai International and has been broking in China for more than eight months.
It's taken an incredibly long time, says Mark Yallop, chief operating officer of Icap, which is the world's biggest inter-dealer broker. Partly because the regulatory approval process has been very careful and deliberate û slower than we'd...
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