PROSPECTUS 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 discussed under the heading Risk Factors beginning on page 9 of this prospectus, as well as the Risk Factors section of our latest Annual Report on Form
10-K filed with the SEC, and any updates to those risk factors contained in our subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC, all of which we incorporate 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.
BGC, BGC Partners, BGC Trader, GFI,
CreditMatch, Fenics, Fenics.com, Sunrise Brokers, Besso, Ed, Poten & Partners, R.P. Martin, kACE2, EMBonds, Capitalab, Swaptioniser, CBID and Lucera are trademarks/service marks, and/or
registered trademarks/service marks of BGC Partners, Inc. and/or its affiliates.
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,
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 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.