BGC becomes first interdealer broker to launch electronic platform for Yen IRS market LeapRate

February 09, 2015 BY Mike Fox

BGC becomes first interdealer broker to launch electronic platform for Yen IRS market

BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ:BGCP), a leading global brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate markets, today announced that it has launched BGC Trader for Yen Interest Rate Swaps ("IRS"). BGC is the first interdealer broker to launch a fully electronic platform for the Yen IRS market. This new market offering utilizes BGC Trader, BGC's…

March 09, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Father Of Former BGC Partners Employee Arrested On Suspicion Of Shooting Derivatives Trader Robin Clark

FX Options and derivatives trader Robin Clark was shot in the leg on his way to the office in January this year. Police have now arrested 51 year old Lee Victory in connection with the incident One and a half months have passed since Robin Clark, a professional trader at London's RP Martin, majoring on…

September 20, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

SEF applications approved for Javelin, BGC Partners and TeraExchange

Most major Swaps industry participants have received, or at least applied for, SEF designation. The CFTC has granted three more SEF licenses, this time to Tera Group's TeraExchange, BGC Partners and Javelin Capital Markets. They now join Bloomberg, Tradeweb, State Street, GFI, and MarketAxess, with applications still in process for industry giants CME Group and Thomson…

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