BGC Partners, Inc.

BGC Partners, Inc. is a financial and technology services firm based in New York, United States. Founded in 1945, BGC is a leading independent global financial services company that provides a wide range of services to a broad range of clients. The company operates through four distinct divisions – fixed income, equity derivatives and cash equities, energy and commodities, and interdealer broking. In addition to brokerage services and trading, BGC provides a range of technology services, including electronic and hybrid brokerage, other financial technology solutions, market data and related information services, and analytics related to financial instruments and markets.

BGC works with a variety of clients throughout banking, broker-dealer, and corporate sectors, including banks, broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds, governments, and corporations, as well as investment firms. It also offers a range of services to clients located in the United States, France, other Europe, the United Kingdom, other Americas, Asia, Australia, Africa, and the Middle East.

BGC is well known for its innovative financial technology solutions, including Fenics, FMX, BGC Trader, CreditMatch, Fenics Market Data, Fenics GO, BGC Market Data, kACE2, Capitalab, Swaptioniser, CBID, Lucera and LumeAlfa. The company provides screen-based market solutions, option pricing and analysis tools and software and technology infrastructure for the transactional and technology related elements of the financial markets.

In addition, BGC has an extensive presence in global capital markets, with over 2,000 professionals operating in 24 countries across the world. The company is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BGCP) and is also listed in the S&P SmallCap 600 and Russell 2000 indices. BGC has been recognized multiple times for its outstanding performance and commitment to financial services, and was named the Best Interdealer Broker Overall at the 2018 Annual Global Capital Awards.