BGC Partners Raises Over $8 Million On Fourth Annual Global Charity Trading Day

Stars of sport, film, television and music help to raise money for charities around the world. Total raised for charity over four years tops $23 million

 LONDON and NEW YORK, (September 15, 2008) – BGC Partners, Inc. (Nasdaq: BGCP), one of the world’s leading inter-dealer brokers, announced today that it raised over $8 million for charity on its highly successful Fourth Annual Global Charity Day held on Thursday, 11September 2008, bringing the total over four years to more than $23 million.

The London event was supported by over 120 guests including HRH The Prince of Wales, Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, movies stars Kevin Spacey, Joseph Fiennes and Rosamunde Pike and Olympic gold medallists Ben Ainslie, James DeGale and Rebecca Romero (please see full guest list attached). Guests helped to raise money by assisting BGC brokers with multi-million dollar deals on the trading floor.

In New York, BGC was supported by guests including Mayor Michael Bloomberg, TV personality Regis Philbin, Hollywood stars Steve Buscemi, Matthew Modine and Eli Wallach, business magnate Donald Trump and a host of sporting legends including Boomer Esiason, who hosted his radio show live from BGC’s broking floor, former New York Giant Tiki Barber and NHL stars Scott Gomez and Sean Avery.

The Paris office welcomed Michel Hidalgo, Jean-Pierre Beltoise and a host of TV personalities, singers and comedians.

Across Asia and Australia, Cathy Lee, Steve Dawson, Paula Malai Ali, Eileen Tan, Cassandra See, Constance Song, Jodhi Meares and Shane Warne visited BGC offices to lend their support to the day.

Lee Amaitis, Co-Chief Executive Officer of BGC, said “It has been a fantastic day and I thank everyone for making it such a great success. At a time of challenging economic conditions in so many markets, our clients have been terrific with their support and I am extremely grateful to them and to all our guests and staff for their commitment. As a result, over $8 million will be going to very deserving causes.”

Revenues from the day will be donated to a number of charities around the world. In the UK these include The Alder Hey Imagine Appeal, The Anthony Nolan Trust, Barnardo’s, Breast Cancer Care, Cruse Bereavement Care, DEBRA, The Jodie Kidd Foundation, The Marina Dalglish Appeal, Multiple Sclerosis, NSPCC Childline, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, The Paul Hunter Foundation, The Prince’s Trust, Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity, Richard House Children’s Hospital, St Paul’s Cathedral Foundation, Scope, Sparks, The Willow Foundation and The Variety Club.

In the US charities include Baby Buggy, The Boomer Esiason Foundation, The Children’s Institute, Ice Hockey in Harlem, Jubilee Center, Mercy Center, National Down Syndrome Society, Project Find, Quality Services for the Autism Community, The Valerie Fund, Wounded Warrior Project.

Elsewhere around the world charities included Project J’ai un Reve, La Licorne, Antennae Technologie, L’Oeuvre De La Bouchee De Pain, Stepping Stone House, Tour Duchenne, Australian Childhood Foundation, The Shane Warne Foundation, Christina Noble Children’s Foundation, Chi Heng Foundation, Children’s Cancer Foundation, Futaba Infant Home, Saint Joseph House.

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About BGC Partners

Since BGC’s inception, the company has continued its long legacy of fundraising on behalf of a wide range of charitable causes and the four-year total for the global Charity Day now tops $23 million.

BGC Partners, Inc. (Nasdaq: BGCP) is a leading, fast growing, and 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 creates a distinctive competitive advantage among its peers. Named after fixed income trading innovator B.Gerald Cantor, BGC Partners has 16 offices worldwide that are located in New York and London, as well as in Beijing (representative office), Chicago, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Nyon, Paris, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto. For more information, please visitwww.bgcpartners.com.

BGC Charity Day, Thursday 11th September 2008 – Guests in London

HRH The Prince of Wales
HRH Princess Michael of Kent

BGC Charity Day, Thursday 11th September 2008 – Guests in New York

BGC Charity Day, Thursday 11th September 2008 – Guests in Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney

Cathy Lee, Steve Dawson, Paula Malai Ali, Eileen Tan, Cassandra See, Constance Song, Jodhi Meares, Shane Warne

BGC Charity Day, Thursday 11th September 2008 – Guests in Paris

Pierrette Bres, Pascal Cellem, Bernard Menez, Fabienne Egal, Michel Hidalgo, Grace de Capitani, Patrice Drevet, Marcel Amont, Michel Laroza, Daniele Evenou, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Isabelle Bres, Muriel Hermine, Georges Beller and Jo-Ann Pickens.