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BGC Partners to Host Investors and Analysts on Thursday May 27, 2010

^{Published on 2010-05-20 05:10:27 - Market Wire}
 

NEW YORK--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) a leading global intermediary to the wholesale financial markets, will host analysts and professional investors for a half-day in Manhattan on Thursday, May 27, 2010.

The event will be hosted by BGC Partnersa™ Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Howard W. Lutnick, and will involve presentations by additional Company executives regarding BGC Partnersa™ financial results, operations, and outlook. The event is scheduled to begin at 10:00 AM ET, and will last approximately four hours. The formal presentations will be followed by a tour of BGC Partnersa™ New York brokerage operations.

Attendance at the event is by invitation only, but the general public is invited to view the presentations and listen to a live audio webcast of the event in the aInvestor Relationsa section of BGCa™s website at [ www.bgcpartners.com ]. A replay of the webcast will be available on the website within 24 hours.

About BGC Partners, Inc.

BGC Partners is a global intermediary to the wholesale financial markets, specializing in the brokering of a broad range of financial products, including fixed income securities, interest rate swaps, foreign exchange, equities, equity derivatives, credit derivatives, commodities, futures, structured products and other instruments. BGC Partners also provides a full range of services, including trade execution, broker-dealer services, clearing, processing, information, and other back office services to a broad range of financial and non-financial institutions. BGC Partnersa™ integrated platform is designed to provide flexibility to customers with regard to price discovery, execution and processing of transactions, and enables them to use voice, hybrid, or, where available, fully electronic brokerage services in connection with transactions executed either OTC or through an exchange. Through its eSpeed, BGC Trader, and BGCantor Market Data brands, the Company also offers financial technology solutions, market data, and analytics related to select financial instruments and markets. BGC Partnersa™ customers include many of the worlda™s largest banks, broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds, governments and investment firms. Named after fixed income trading innovator B. Gerald Cantor, BGC Partners has 20 offices, located in New York and London, as well as in Beijing (representative office), Chicago, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Moscow, Nyon, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, So Paulo, Sarasota, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto.

Discussion of Forward-Looking Statements by BGC Partners

Statements in this press release regarding BGC Partnersa™ 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 Partnersa™ 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, 2009, as filed with the SEC on March 16, 2010 and any updates to such risk factors contained in subsequent 10-Q filings.