In 1945 Bernard Gerald Cantor founded brokerage service firm B.G. Cantor and Company, which later became Cantor Fitzgerald.
Cantor Fitzgerald spun-off its brokerage services firm in 2004 as BGC Partners.
Today the company provides voice, electronic, and hybrid trade brokerage for financial products such as foreign exchange derivatives, futures, government bonds, foreign bonds, and interest rate swaps services for banks, investment firms, and other institutional traders through 115 global offices.
BGC Partners trades publicly on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol BGCP, is a member of the Russell 2000, is #838 in the Fortune 1000, has 6,656 employees, and had $1.75 billion in revenue in 2014.
BGC PartnersIn 1945 Bernard Gerald Cantor founded brokerage service firm B.G. Cantor and Company, which later became Cantor Fitzgerald.
Cantor Fitzgerald spun-off its brokerage services firm in 2004 as BGC Partners.
Today the company provides voice, electronic, and hybrid trade brokerage for financial products such as foreign exchange derivatives, futures, government bonds, foreign bonds, and interest rate swaps services for banks, investment firms, and other institutional traders through 115 global offices.
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BGC Partners trades publicly on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol BGCP, is a member of the Russell 2000, is #838 in the Fortune 1000, has 6,656 employees, and had $1.75 billion in revenue in 2014.