No plans to spin off electronic business, says Spencer

Responding to question on full-year earnings call

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Icap has no plans to separate and sell off its electronic brokerage businesses, EBS and BrokerTec, says chief executive Michael Spencer, adding that the story in March suggesting a potential sale of these assets was without merit.

"I'm not about to palm off our electronic business, no," responded Spencer to a question from FX Week on the global broker's full-year earnings call.

"At the time we didn't put out a press release, but we privately gave quite a bit of pushback on that story because it

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