Trader Suing Tullett for Discrimination Is in Limbo

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A sign hangs on the offices of ICAP Plc in London.Photographer: Matthew Lloyd/Bloomberg
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For Opeyemi Olayanju, coming to work one day in October to find his computer cables unplugged was the last straw.

The way he saw it, the incident was yet another attempt at sabotaging his budding career at the London office of Tullett Prebon, the brokerage unit of energy and commodities trading firm TP ICAP Plc. Coming after what the Black British trader says was bullying and harassment tinged with racism, he quit.