23:15 | 04.08.2009
DGAP-News: BGC Partners Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results
BGC Partners, Inc. /
04.08.2009
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NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BGC Partners, Inc. (Nasdaq:BGCP)
(’BGC Partners’ or ‘the Company’), a leading global inter-dealer broker of
financial instruments, today reported its financial results for the second
quarter ended June 30, 2009.
A complete and full-text financial results press release is accessible at the
‘Investor Relations’ section of http://www.bgcpartners.com. It is also
available directly at any of the following web pages:
http://www.bgcpartners.com/ir
http://www.bgcpartners.com/ir-news
http://www.bgcpartners.com/news-centre/press-releases
(Note: If clicking on the above links does not open up a new web page, you may
need to cut and paste the above urls into your browser’s address bar.)
About BGC Partners, Inc.
BGC Partners, Inc. (Nasdaq:BGCP) is a leading global inter-dealer broker,
specializing in the brokering of financial instruments and related derivatives
products. BGC Partners provides integrated voice, hybrid, and fully electronic
execution and other brokerage services to the world’s largest and most
creditworthy banks, broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, and
investment firms for a broad range of global financial products, including
fixed income securities, interest rate swaps, foreign exchange, equity
derivatives, credit derivatives, futures, commodities, structured products, and
other instruments.
Through its eSpeed and BGC Trader brands, BGC Partners uses its proprietary,
built, and paid for technology to operate multiple buyer, multiple seller
real-time electronic marketplaces for the world’s most liquid capital markets.
The Company’s pioneering suite of tools provides end-to-end transaction
solutions for the purchase and sale of financial products over its global
private network or via the Internet. BGC Partners’ neutral platform, reliable
network, straight-through processing and superior products make it the trusted
source for electronic trading for the world’s largest financial firms. Through
its BGCantor Market Data brand, the Company also offers globally distributed
and innovative market data and analysis products for numerous financial
instruments and markets.
BGC’s unique partnership structure and extensive employee ownership create a
distinctive competitive advantage among its peers. Named after fixed income
trading innovator B. Gerald Cantor, BGC Partners has 18 offices in New York and
London, as well as in Beijing (representative office), Chicago, Copenhagen,
Hong Kong, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Nyon, Paris, Rio de Janeiro,
Sao Paulo, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto. For more information,
visit http://www.bgcpartners.com. The Company’s corporate address is: BGC
Partners, Inc., 499 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10022. The media, analysts,
and investors can also subscribe to BGC Partners’ investor ‘Email Alerts’ at
the ‘Investor Relations’ section of http://www.bgcpartners.com.
The BGC Partners, Inc. logo is available at
http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=5785
Discussion of Forward-Looking Statements by BGC Partners
Statements in this press release regarding BGC Partners’ business that are not
historical facts are ‘forward-looking statements’ that involve risks and
uncertainties. 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 Partners’ Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) filings, including, but not limited to, the risk factors set
forth in our public filings which we incorporate by reference, including our
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, as filed with the SEC on March
16, 2009 and any updates to such risk factors contained in subsequent 10-Q
filings.
CONTACT: BGC Partners, Inc.
Media:
Florencia Panizza
212-294-7938
fpanizza@bgcpartners.com
Investors:
Jason McGruder
212-829-4988
jmcgruder@bgcpartners.com
Chris Walters
212-294-8059
cwalters@bgcpartners.com
News Source: NASDAQ OMX
04.08.2009 Financial News transmitted by DGAP
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Language: English
Issuer: BGC Partners, Inc.
United States
Phone:
Fax:
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ISIN: US05541T1016
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