Presenting at Piper Sandler's Global Exchange and
Brokerage Conference
Hosting its Annual Meeting of Stockholders
Virtually
NEW YORK, May 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- BGC Partners,
Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) ("BGC Partners" or "BGC" or the "Company"), a
leading global brokerage and financial technology company, today
announced that its Chairman and CEO, Howard
W. Lutnick, is scheduled to present at Piper Sandler's
Global Exchange and Brokerage Conference at 1:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, June 3, 2020. The
Company also announced details on its annual meeting of
stockholders, which will be held virtually at 10:00 am ET on
Thursday, June 11, 2020.
A live audio webcast of the Global Exchange conference will be
available at 1:30 p.m. ET on
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at the following site:
http://www.wsw.com/webcast/pipersandler7/bgcp
The webcast archive will be available for 90 days, beginning
June 3, 2020.
A live audio webcast of the virtual shareholders meeting will be
available at 10:00 am ET on Thursday, June
11, 2020 at the following site:
www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/BGCP2020
The webcast archive will be available for 365 days, beginning
June 11, 2020.
A live audio webcast for both events and accompanying
presentations, if any, will also be available at BGC's Investor
website:
http://ir.bgcpartners.com
Statements made during the webcasts and in any accompanying
presentations may include forward-looking statements about the
Company. The webcasts may also include information about BGC's
financial results, operations, and outlook.
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Virtual Shareholder Meeting Details
To participate in the Annual Meeting, visit
www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/BGCP2020 or
http://ir.bgcpartners.com and enter the 16-digit control
number included on your Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy
Materials, on your proxy card or on the instructions that
accompanied your proxy materials. You may begin to log into the
meeting platform beginning at 9:55 a.m.
(eastern time) on June 11,
2020. The meeting is expected to begin promptly at
10:00 a.m. (eastern time) on
June 11, 2020.
The virtual meeting platform is fully supported across browsers
(Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari) and devices
(desktops, laptops, tablets, and cell phones) running the most
updated version of applicable software and plugins. Participants
should ensure that they have a strong Wi-Fi connection wherever
they intend to participate in the meeting. Participants should also
give themselves plenty of time to log in and ensure that they can
hear streaming audio prior to the start of the meeting.
If you want to submit your question during the meeting, log into
the virtual meeting platform at
www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/BGCP2020, type your question into
the "Ask a Question" field and click "Submit." Questions pertinent
to meeting matters will be answered during the meeting, subject to
time constraints. Questions regarding personal matters, including
those related to employment, individual transactions, product or
service issues, or other matters not relevant to investors
generally, are not pertinent to meeting matters, and therefore will
not be answered.
About BGC Partners, Inc.
BGC Partners is a leading global brokerage and financial
technology company. BGC's 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, Lucera, and Fenics Market
Data, BGC offers financial technology solutions, market data, and
analytics related to numerous financial instruments and markets.
BGC, BGC Trader, GFI, Fenics, Fenics Market Data, Capitalab, and
Lucera are trademarks/service marks and/or registered
trademarks/service marks of BGC Partners, Inc. and/or its
affiliates.
BGC's customers include many of the world's largest banks,
broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds,
governments, corporations, and investment firms. BGC's Class A
common stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the
ticker symbol "BGCP". BGC Partners is led by Chairman of the Board
and Chief Executive Officer Howard W.
Lutnick. For more information, please visit
http://www.bgcpartners.com. You can also follow BGC at
https://twitter.com/bgcpartners,
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bgc-partners and/or
http://ir.bgcpartners.com/Investors/default.aspx.
Discussion of Forward-Looking Statements about BGC
Statements in this document regarding BGC that are not
historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve
risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ
from those contained in the forward-looking statements. These
include statements about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on
the Company's business, results, financial position, liquidity and
outlook, which may constitute forward-looking statements and are
subject to the risk that the actual impact may differ, possibly
materially, from what is currently expected. Except as required by
law, BGC undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking
statements. For a discussion of additional risks and uncertainties,
which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in
the forward-looking statements, see BGC's Securities and Exchange
Commission filings, including, but not limited to, the risk factors
and Special Note on Forward-Looking Information set forth in these
filings and any updates to such risk factors and Special Note on
Forward-Looking Information contained in subsequent reports on Form
10-K, Form 10-Q or Form 8-K.
Media Contact:
Karen Laureano-Rikardsen
+1 212-829-4975
Investor Contacts:
Ujjal Basu Roy or Jason
McGruder
+1 212-610-2426
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