NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the likes
of President Bill Clinton, Cindy
Crawford, Candice Swanepoel, Victor
Cruz and many more helped to honor those lost on 9/11 by
raising millions for 150 charities on the 18th annual
Charity Day. Cantor Fitzgerald, a
leading financial services firm, and its affiliates BGC Partners,
Inc. and GFI Group, come together each year to host Charity Day on September
11th, working to rewrite the narrative around
that tragic day.
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Every year since 2002, Charity
Day has opened trading floors and invite esteemed guests
representing participating charities to join licensed brokers on
the trading floors to conduct transactions with clients. One
hundred percent of global revenue from Charity Day is distributed to dozens of
charities around the world, including the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief
Fund. The organization, which has raised approximately $336 million globally since its inception, was
created to commemorate the 658 Cantor employees and 61 Eurobrokers
employees lost in the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.
"I am grateful for the continued support for Charity Day from distinguished guests from the
worlds of sports, film, television, music, government and more,"
said Howard W. Lutnick, Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. and BGC
Partners, Inc. "This event provides us a moment to remember those
who lost their lives that day, instead transforming it into a day
of hope, charity and unity."
This year, dozens of celebrities gave their time and helped
raise millions in a single day for various charities around the
world. The work of the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund in 2019
included $4 million for Puerto Rico to help families affected by
Hurricanes Irma and Maria to rebuild their homes and their
lives.
"Charity Day has always been
about making a difference in the lives of those in need," said
Edie Lutnick, President and
Co-Founder of the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund. "It enables us to
honor those lost on 9/11 and to continue to pay forward the
kindness we received by supporting others who are doing good work
in the world. Charity Day is the
positive and enduring legacy for all of the men and women who we
cared so deeply about."
Esteemed guests representing participating charities joined
licensed brokers on the trading floors to conduct transactions with
clients: Cindy Crawford, Supermodel
(Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund); President Bill Clinton (Clinton Foundation); Tony Blair, Former Prime Minister (Tony Blair
Institute for Global Change); Victor
Cruz, NFL (Victor Cruz Foundation); Tino Martinez, MLB (Italian American Baseball
Foundation); Spencer Dinwiddle, NBA
(Dinwiddle Family Foundation); Jim
Leyritz, MLB (September
11th Education Trust); Ilana Glazer,
Comedian (Happy Trails for Kids); Candice Swanepoel,
Victoria's Secret Model (Mothers2Mothers); Brian Cashman, MLB (Covenant House).
To make a donation to the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, please
call (212) 829-4770 or visit www.cantorrelief.org.
About Cantor Fitzgerald
Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P., with
over 12,000 employees, is a leading global financial services group
at the forefront of financial and technological innovation has been
proven a resilient leader for over 70 years. Cantor
Fitzgerald & Co. is a preeminent investment bank serving more
than 5,000 institutional clients around the world, recognized for
its strengths in fixed income and equity capital markets,
investment banking, prime brokerage, and commercial real estate and
for its global distribution platform. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.
is one of the 24 primary dealers authorized to transact business
with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. For more
information, please visit: www.cantor.com.
About BGC Partners, Inc.
BGC Partners is a leading
global brokerage and financial technology company. BGC's offerings
include fixed income securities, interest rate swaps, foreign
exchange, equities, equity derivatives, credit derivatives,
commodities, futures, and structured products. BGC provides a wide
range of services, including trade execution, broker-dealer
services, clearing, trade compression, post trade, information, and
other services to a broad range of financial and non-financial
institutions. Through brands including Fenics, BGC Trader,
Capitalab, Lucera, and Fenics Market Data, BGC offers financial
technology solutions, market data, and analytics related to
numerous financial instruments and markets. BGC, BGC Trader, GFI,
Fenics, Fenics Market Data, Capitalab, and Lucera are
trademarks/service marks and/or registered trademarks/service marks
of BGC Partners, Inc. and/or its affiliates.
BGC's customers include many of the world's largest banks,
broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds,
governments, corporations, and investment firms. BGC's Class A
common stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the
ticker symbol "BGCP". BGC Partners is led by Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer Howard W. Lutnick.
For more information, please visit http://www.bgcpartners.com. You
can also follow BGC at https://twitter.com/bgcpartners,
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bgc-partners and/or
http://ir.bgcpartners.com/Investors/default.aspx.
Discussion of Forward-Looking Statements about
BGC
Statements in this document regarding BGC that are not
historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve
risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ
from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Except as
required by law, BGC undertakes no obligation to update any
forward-looking statements. 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's
Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including, but not
limited to, the risk factors and Special Note on Forward-Looking
Statements set forth in these filings and any updates to such risk
factors and Special Note on Forward-Looking Statements contained in
subsequent Forms 10-K, Forms 10-Q or Forms 8-K.
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 natural disasters, emergencies, direct
service charities and wounded members of the military.
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 $159 million
for charitable causes around the world, and since its inception the
Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund has raised and distributed over
$336 million. For information about
the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund please
visit www.cantorrelief.org.
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