Tullett Prebon Completes Acquisition of PVM

LONDON, ENGLAND and NEW YORK, AMERICA and SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE--(Marketwired - Nov. 26, 2014) - Tullett Prebon plc (the "Company") today announced that it has completed the acquisition of PVM Oil Associates Limited, a leading independent oil brokerage firm, and its subsidiaries ("PVM").

PVM has an average daily turnover in excess of 150 million barrels of Over the Counter (OTC) oil derivatives including options and oil futures contracts. The firm employs 130 specialist brokers headquartered in London, Singapore and in Hoboken and Houston in the USA.

The PVM transaction adds 33 new broking desks to the Tullett Prebon Group and significantly increases coverage of oil products in Asia and the US markets. PVM's Information Sales business is focussed on the oil sector and complements Tullett Prebon's information sales business, Tullett Prebon Information, which has 1,300 subscriber firms in 50 countries.

PVM's main broking activities relate to Crude Oil and Petroleum Products. The transaction also adds a global oil futures business, biomass, Singapore distillates and Urals to the Tullett Prebon group. Over the last year PVM has also started environmental activities covering biomass and biofuels. It has also started the physical and financial broking of coal and the physical options broking of EU Carbon allowances and offsets. PVM is also active in energy related shipping.

PVM has more than 350 brokerage customers, some of whom have traded with the firm for over 30 years. They include commodity producers and consumers, traders and risk managers within large oil and gas corporations, energy utilities, fund managers, professional traders, hedge funds and financial institutions. More than 80 per cent of PVM's sales in 2013 originated from non-investment bank clients. In the latest audited accounts, for the year ended 31 July 2013, PVM reported revenue of $107.5m (£68.5m at current exchange rates). The unaudited management accounts for the 12 months to July 2014 show revenue of $114.2m (£72.7m at current exchange rates).

By combining the Tullett Prebon and PVM energy data sets, Tullett Prebon Information, a leading provider of independent real-time price information from the global OTC financial and commodity markets, will be able to expand its suite of energy products to extend and deepen its global crude, refined and middle distillates coverage. Additionally a range of new datasets including CFDs, EFPs, EFSs and pricing for the Urals will be available. Further areas of product expansion are envisaged including US domestic crudes.