SUMMARY
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of the information that is important to you, and it is qualified in its entirety by the more detailed information and financial statements, including the notes to those financial statements, appearing elsewhere or incorporated by reference in this
prospectus. Please see the sections titled Where You Can Find More Information and Documents Incorporated by Reference. Before making an investment decision, we encourage you to consider the information contained in and
incorporated by reference in this prospectus, including the risks referred to under the heading Risk Factors beginning on page 3 of this prospectus and in Item 1A of Part I of our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, and any updates to those risks included in subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K, all of
which are incorporated by reference herein.
When we use the words BGC Partners, BGC, we, us,
our or the Company, we are referring to BGC Partners, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries.
The Company
We are a leading global brokerage and financial technology company servicing the global financial markets. Our Class A common stock is
traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol BGCP.
Through brands including BGC®, GFI®, Sunrise Brokers, Besso, Ed Broking, Poten & Partners and R.P.
Martin, among others, our businesses specialize in the brokerage of a broad range of products, including fixed income (rates and credit), foreign exchange, equities, energy and commodities,
insurance, and futures. Our businesses also provide a wide variety range of services, including trade execution, broker-dealer services, clearing, trade compression, post trade, information, and other back-office services to a broad assortment of
financial and non-financial institutions. Our integrated platform is designed to provide flexibility to customers with regards to price discovery, execution and processing of transactions, and enables them to
use Voice, Hybrid, or in many markets, Fully Electronic brokerage services in connection with transactions executed either OTC or through an exchange. Through our electronic brands including
Fenics®, BGC Trader, CreditMatch, Fenics Market Data, BGC Market Data, kACE2, EMBonds, Capitalab®, Swaptioniser, CBID and Lucera®, we offer Fully Electronic brokerage, financial technology solutions, market data, post-trade services and analytics related to financial instruments and markets.
Our customers include many of the worlds largest banks, broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds, governments,
corporations, and investment firms. We have dozens of offices globally in major markets including New York and London, as well as in Bahrain, Beijing, Bogotá, Brisbane, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dubai, Dublin, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong
Kong, Houston, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Madrid, Melbourne, Mexico City, Moscow, Nyon, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, and Toronto.
Executive Offices
Our executive offices
are located at 499 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10022, while our international headquarters is located at 1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5RD, United Kingdom. Our telephone number is (212)
610-2200. Our website is located at www.bgcpartners.com, and our e-mail address is info@bgcpartners.com. The information contained on, or that may be
obtained through, our website is not part of, and is not incorporated in, this prospectus.