NEW YORK, LONDON, Sept. 11,
2014 /PRNewswire/ -- BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP)
("BGC Partners" or "BGC"), a leading global brokerage company
servicing the financial and real estate markets, announced today
that BGC, together with its affiliate Cantor Fitzgerald, raised the
same as last year at approximately $12
million for charities around the world, at the companies'
annual Charity Day on Thursday,
September 11, 2014.
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"Every year on Charity Day we
support many worthwhile charities around the world, turning a
tragic anniversary into a positive and uplifting day," said Howard
W. Lutnick, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BGC Partners.
"I'd like to thank everyone who supports our Charity Day including our clients, partners and
employees, for their continued generosity for which we are
immensely grateful."
Since its inception Charity Day
has raised approximately $113 million globally. Held in
commemoration of the 658 Cantor employees and 61 Eurobrokers
employees lost in the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, Charity Day, in conjunction with the Cantor
Fitzgerald Relief Fund, has expanded its mission to assist
charitable causes worldwide.
BGC President, Shaun D. Lynn,
said: "We are privileged to support so many worthy charities around
the world and are grateful to our clients and employees for
supporting Charity Day over the past
ten years. It is through their kindness, and that of our celebrity
guests who join us on our trading floors, that we are able to help
provide financial assistance to so many outstanding organizations
globally and take care of so many families in need."
BGC Charity Day was held in BGC offices across the globe
including: London, New York, Paris, Hong
Kong, Sao Paulo,
Singapore, Sydney, and other locations.
Distinguished guests representing participating charities joined
licensed brokers on the trading floors to conduct transactions with
clients. In London, BGC's
celebrity guests included: HRH Princess
Beatrice, musician Jools Holland, actors and actresses
Samuel L Jackson, Damian Lewis,
Clive Owen, Sean Bean, Sadie
Frost, Barbara Windsor, and
media personalities Stephen Fry,
Amanda Holden, Tamara Ecclestone, Jonathan Ross, Vernon
Kay, and Denise Van Outen.
Leading comedians who joined us included Paddy McGuinness, Jack
Whitehall, Jennifer Saunders,
as well as models Yasmin Le Bon and
David Gandy. Sporting heroes
included Olympian Sir Chris Hoy,
former tennis champion Boris Becker,
England rugby players James Haskell and Manu
Tuilagi, England Manager
Roy Hodgson, England footballer Jack Wilshere, Chelsea captain John Terry, Chelsea and England footballer Gary Cahill, West Ham manager Sam Allardyce and football legends Sir
Alex Ferguson, Sir Trevor Brooking and Sir Geoff Hurst.
At BGC's New York offices,
guests included musician Curtis "50
Cent" Jackson, actors Rooney
Mara, Steve Buscemi,
Edie Falco, Kevin Kline, Pamela
Anderson, Tony Sirico, and
media personalities Jenny McCarthy,
Rosanna Scotto, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, as well as Boomer Esiason
and Craig Carton of the Boomer and
Carton radio show on WFAN and CBS Sports simulcast. Leading
athletes who joined BGC included: New York Knicks Carmelo Anthony,
Iman Shumpert, and Tim Hardaway Jr., Deron
Williams from the Brooklyn Nets, New York Yankees Mark
Teixeira, CC Sabathia and Dellin
Betances, New York Mets Matt Harvey and Curtis Granderson. Also attending were former
New York Yankees: Mariano Rivera,
Joe Pepitone, Al Leiter, former New York Knicks John Starks
and Larry Johnson, former New York
Jets Joe Klecko, former New York
Mets John Franco, and former New York Rangers Rod Gilbert. In addition, Sarah, Duchess of
York and HRH Princess Eugenie of York, and models Bridget Moynahan, Linda
Evangelista, Jennifer
Ohlsson, Carol Alt, Coco
Rocha and Damaris Lewis, joined BGC Charity Day, as well as
many others.
About BGC Partners, Inc.
BGC Partners is a leading
global brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate
markets. Products include fixed income securities, interest
rate swaps, foreign exchange, equities, equity derivatives, credit
derivatives, commercial real estate, commodities, futures, and
structured products. BGC also provides a wide 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. Through
its BGC Trader and BGC Market Data brands, BGC offers financial
technology solutions, market data, and analytics related to
numerous financial instruments and markets. Through the
Newmark Grubb Knight Frank brand, the Company offers a wide range
of commercial real estate services including leasing and corporate
advisory, investment sales and financial services, consulting,
project and development management, and property and facilities
management. BGC's customers include many of the world's largest
banks, broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge
funds, governments, corporations, property owners, real estate
developers, and investment firms. BGC Partners is led by Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer Howard W. Lutnick. For more
information, please visit
www.bgcpartners.com.
BGC, BGC Trader, Grubb & Ellis, Grubb and Newmark are
trademarks and service marks of BGC Partners, Inc. and its
affiliates. Knight Frank is a service mark of Knight Frank
Limited Corp., used with permission.
About Charity Day and the
Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund
Every year, Cantor Fitzgerald
and BGC Partners, in conjunction with the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief
Fund, commemorate our 658 Cantor and 61 Eurobrokers employees who
perished on September 11, 2001 by
distributing 100% of our global revenues on Charity Day to the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund
and dozens of charities around the world. The Cantor Fitzgerald
Relief Fund, initially created to assist families of Cantor
employees who were lost on 9/11, has since broadened its mission to
provide aid to victims of terrorism, natural disasters,
emergencies, direct service charities and wounded members of the
military.
At Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners, Charity Day is our way of turning a tragic day
into one that is positive and uplifting by helping others. We
invite celebrity guests who represent participating charities into
our offices to conduct trades with licensed brokers and their
clients. To date, Charity Day has
raised approximately $113 million for
charitable causes around the world, and since its inception the
Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund has raised and distributed over
$270 million.
The company and the Relief Fund's mission to fulfill an
important legacy and give meaning to the lives of the victims of
9/11 is captured in the book, An Unbroken Bond: The Untold Story
of How the 658 Cantor Fitzgerald Families Faced the Tragedy of 9/11
and Beyond, written by Edie
Lutnick, Co-Founder and President of the Cantor Fitzgerald
Relief Fund. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of this book
go directly to the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund. The book is
available for purchase on www.cantorrelief.org/store,
www.anunbrokenbond.com, and Amazon.
The story of Cantor Fitzgerald, both before and in the aftermath
of 9/11, is told in filmmaker Danielle
Gardner's documentary "Out of the Clear Blue Sky." Ms.
Gardner lost her brother Douglas on 9/11. The documentary tells the
behind-the-scenes story of Cantor Fitzgerald and its surviving
employees, from an insider's perspective. The film is now
available for purchase and can be downloaded from Amazon, iTunes,
and elsewhere. For more information on "Out of the Clear Blue
Sky", please visit
http://www.outoftheclearblueskymovie.com/.
For information about the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund please
visit www.cantorrelief.org. For information about
charities around the world that participate in BGC's Charity Day, please visit:
http://www.bgccharityday.com/
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