NEW YORK and LONDON, April 26,
2017 /PRNewswire/ -- BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP)
("BGC Partners," "BGC" or "the Company"), a leading global
brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate markets,
announced today that FENICS Market Data is adding two new members
to its Americas team. Both are based in New York.
Damien Fitzpatrick has
joined BGC as the Head of Sales, FENICS Market Data for the
Americas, reporting to Mr. Elliott
Hann, FENICS Market Data's Director of Sales.
Mr. Fitzpatrick joined from ICAP, a subsidiary of TP ICAP plc,
where he was most recently Head of Sales & Business Development
for Asia Pacific. Prior to that,
he worked at Thomson Reuters in various commercial roles in
New York, London and Singapore.
Joel Machado has joined as
Head of Business Development for Latin
America, reporting to Mr. Fitzpatrick. He brings over 10
years of experience in Business Development and Financial Solutions
Sales for Latin America. Most
recently, he led the Latin America Sales teams at Integral and EBS
Brokertec, a subsidiary of NEX Group plc.
Mr. Hann commented: "We are excited to welcome Damien and Joel
to FENICS Market Data's growing New
York- based team. With their extensive global data
sales experience, Damien and Joel will enable our business to
expand the breadth and depth of the capabilities we can offer
clients in the Americas and specifically in Latin America, where we expect to see
significant growth."
FENICS Market Data is a leading provider of real-time,
indicative, end-of-day and historical OTC market data. Its
data is sourced directly from BGC's voice, hybrid, and fully
electronic trading venues, as well as pricing analytics. BGC's
global brokerage operations encompass a range of brands including
GFI, MINT, RP Martin, Amerex, Freedom, Perimeter, Sunrise, Remate
and BGC Liquidez. FENICS Market Data also uses BGC's pricing
analytics data to provide a comprehensive solution for independent
and verifiable OTC pricing.
About BGC Partners, Inc.
BGC Partners is a leading
global brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate
markets. BGC owns GFI Group Inc., a leading intermediary and
provider of trading technologies and support services to the global
OTC and listed markets. The Company's Financial Services
offerings include fixed income securities, interest rate swaps,
foreign exchange, equities, equity derivatives, credit derivatives,
commodities, futures, and structured products. BGC provides a wide
range of services, including trade execution, broker-dealer
services, clearing, trade compression, post trade, information, and
other services to a broad range of financial and non-financial
institutions. Through brands including FENICS, BGC Trader,
Capitalab, and Lucera, BGC offers financial technology solutions,
market data, and analytics related to numerous financial
instruments and markets.
Real Estate Services are offered through brands including
Newmark Grubb Knight Frank,
Newmark Cornish & Carey, ARA,
Computerized Facility Integration, NGKF Valuation & Advisory,
and Excess Space. Under these names and others, the Company
provides a wide range of commercial real estate services, including
leasing and corporate advisory, investment sales and financial
services, consulting, project and development management, and
property and facilities management.
BGC's customers include many of the world's largest banks,
broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds,
governments, corporations, property owners, real estate developers,
and investment firms. BGC's common stock trades on the NASDAQ
Global Select Market under the ticker symbol (NASDAQ: BGCP).
BGC also has an outstanding bond issuance of Senior Notes due
June 15, 2042, which trade on the New
York Stock Exchange under the symbol (NYSE: BGCA). BGC
Partners is led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Howard W.
Lutnick. For more information, please visit
http://www.bgcpartners.com. You can also follow the Company
at https://twitter.com/bgcpartners and/or
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bgc-partners.
BGC, BGC Trader, GFI, FENICS, FENICS.COM, Capitalab,
Swaptioniser, Newmark, Grubb & Ellis, ARA, Computerized
Facility Integration, Landauer, Lucera, and Excess Space, Excess
Space Retail Services, Inc., and Grubb are trademarks/service
marks, and/or registered trademarks/service marks and/or service
marks of BGC Partners, Inc. and/or its affiliates. Knight
Frank is a service mark of Knight Frank (Nominees)
Limited.
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