BGC Partners
Update: CME Matches BGC in Battle for GFI
Increases offer to $5.25 per share, matching BGC's premium.
BGC Extends Tender Offer for GFI
Interdealer broker adds to deadline as it settles breach of rules with FCA.
Update: GFI Board Rejects BGC Offer
BGC insists its offer still stands.
Cawley Takes Control at BGC's SEF with Eyes on the Client
James Cawley, who recently took over as CEO of BGC's swap execution facility (SEF), believes the key to success among the SEFs going forward is efficiently meeting customers' needs.
BGC Taps Cawley as SEF Chief
The former founder of Javelin turns up at BGC.
BGC Reaffirms Intent as GFI, CME Stay Silent
Says offer is “very much for real” in analyst call.
BGC Bid for Rival Broker Turns Hostile
A $675 million offer by BGC Partners to acquire its rival GFI Group is now being presented directly to shareholders, following weeks of protracted negotiations between the firms.
BGC Partners Taps Hirschhorn as CIO
Brokerage BGC Partners announced Eric Hirschhorn will take over as the firm's chief information officer immediately.
BGC's SEF Connects with Traiana CreditLink
BGC Partners has announced that its swap execution facility (SEF), BGC Derivatives Markets, can now utilize pre-trade credit checks at Traiana's CreditLink facility, before passing on trades for third-party clearing.
GFI Board Acknowledges BGC Proposal
The board of interdealer broker GFI Group has voted to open its books to suitor BGC Partners, after the brokerage firm made an unsolicited offer to acquire it last week.
Opening Cross: Data Is as Much About Getting Together as Getting It Together!
This week, all eyes will be on London and Inside Market Data’s European Financial Information Summit, which promises its usual array of lively panel discussions and roundtable debates. These events—which IMD holds in key market centers worldwide…
BGC 'Brokers' $12M in Sept. 11 Donations
Interdealer broker BGC Partners and its Cantor Fitzgerald affiliate raised about $12 million for charity Thursday, Sept. 11 during a star-studded charity day that sees the firms donate all revenues generated that day by its brokerage operations around…
BGC Presents Offer for GFI Group
Brokerage firm BGC Partners has announced its intention to submit a cash tender offer to the shareholders of GFI Group, in direct competition with a previous announcement that the New York-based firm would be acquired by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange …
Opening Cross: Sun, Summer, and the Pursuit of the ‘Simple’ Life
The world of market data is encumbered by a multitude of complexities. Not only is the business of data complex, but so is the data itself, and so too are the underlying markets and instruments that require such complex datasets. So key to preventing…
Update: BGC Sets New Non-Display Data Policies
Editor's note: This story has been amended to reflect clarifications provided by BGC that the new policy will not introduce fees for "Public" datasets. Inside Market Data apologizes for the errors.
Nasdaq Targets Q3 for ITCH eSpeed Feed
Nasdaq OMX is set to release a new market data feed for its eSpeed fixed income platform on Sept. 30, based on its ITCH data protocol, to provide algorithmic and high-frequency trading firms with a higher-performance alternative for distributing data on…
Thomson Reuters Adds BGC OTC Data
Thomson Reuters is making real-time over-the-counter data from interdealer broker BGC Partners available via its Eikon desktop, its Elektron Real Time feeds infrastructure, and its Tick History and DataScope Select products, to increase OTC data…
BGC Agrees to Purchase Mexican broker Remate Lince
New York brokerage BGC Partners intends to buy Mexican interdealer broker Remate Lince, which runs an interest rate derivatives and bond brokerage businesses.
Dubai Murabaha Commodities Platform Adds BGC
The interdealer broker will be the first on Dubai Multi Commodities Center's (DMCC's) electronic Tradeflow system, launched in 2013, for trading in niche Islamic finance products.
IDC Adds BCG FX, IRS Rates to OTC Data
Interactive Data will this week make pricing data for foreign exchange and interest rate contracts from interdealer broker BGC Partners available via its Consolidated Feed of data from more than 450 exchanges and over-the-counter sources worldwide, as…
Bloomberg and BGC Launch SEFs
Bloomberg and BGC Partners have officially launched their swap execution facilities (SEFs).
BGC Gets Temporary SEF Approval
BGC Derivative Markets has received temporary registration approval from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to operate a swap execution facility (SEF).
BGC Partners Joins Cadre of SEF Applicants
The electronic and voice brokerage is the latest in a number of financial services firms to apply to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to become a swaps execution facility, or SEF.
Nasdaq OMX to Acquire eSpeed Platform from BGC
Nasdaq OMX has announced that it will purchase BGC Partners' US treasuries-trading platform, eSpeed,for $750 million and contingent stock issuance.