Partners, a company with roots dating backing to 1945 when Bernard Gerald Cantor founded a brokerage service for inter-dealer fixed income markets. B.G. Cantor and Company later became Cantor Fitzgerald, the largest clearer of US Treasuries in the world. BGC Partners was formed in 2004 when Cantor Fitzgerald spun off its inter-dealer voice brokerage and e-speed US Treasuries businesses.

Today BGC Partners, a NASDAQ listed financial services and commercial real estate company with a market capitalisation in excess of US$4 billion and over 6,000 employees, is the world’s largest inter-dealer broker, providing services across a broad range of financial products including bonds, equities, foreign exchange, interest rate, credit and equity derivatives, oil and commodities, financial futures, structured products and other instruments. In addition it has a strong affiliated global commercial property presence via its ownership of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank in the USA.