22 results about this entity
Period: 02 Jul 2004 - 29 Jun 2010
News
Despite receiving regulatory approval, Cantor Fitzgerald appears set to abandon plans to launch an exchange for trading movie box office receipt contracts after lawmakers moved to ban the practice.
29 June 2010
Cantor Fitzgerald is set to launch an electronic futures exchange in April that lets traders hedge and speculate on the financial performance of movies.
24 February 2010
Cantor Fitzgerlad has completed the UK implementation of SunGard's Phase 3 securities processing system, providing the interdealer broker with a consolidated TransAtlantic back office for equity and fixed income trading.
02 November 2009
Freedom International Brokerage has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Tullett Prebon Canada, accusing its rival of hacking into its computer system thousands of times to steal proprietary information, according to local press reports.
03 March 2009
Cantor Fitzgerald has filed an application with regulators to launch an exchange that will allow users to hedge and speculate on the financial performance of movies.
08 December 2008
Stockholders in fixed income trading network eSpeed have overwhelmingly approved the company's merger with brokerage BGC Partners.
14 March 2008
Cantor Fitzgerald is selling privately held brokerage unit BGC Partners to separately listed subsidiary eSpeed for $1.3 billion. The merged entity will take the BGC name and form a new public company focused on voice and electronic fixed income trading.
30 May 2007
US interdealer broker Cantor Fitzgerald has turned down a $12 per share offer for its electronic bond trading network eSpeed from London-based brokerage Tullett Prebon.
18 April 2007
Aqua, an electronic equities trading platform that will be launched later this year by eSpeed, has appointed John Silvestri as senior vice president with responsibilities for sales, brokerage operations and business development.
10 April 2007
Electronic bond trading network eSpeed is coming under renewed pressure for a change in ownership following the acquisition of a 6.4% stake in the company by hedge fund WC Capital Management.
30 March 2007
Swedish exchange operator and trading systems vendor OMX says an appeals court in the US has upheld a ruling stating that its technology doesn't violate a patent held by Cantor Fitzgerald subsidiary eSpeed, removing the threat of liability claims.
27 March 2007
After last week disclosing a 9.3% stake in e-trading operation eSpeed and calling for a formal split from interdealer broker Cantor Fitzgerald, investment advisor Chapman Capital has demanded that eSpeed's board of directors retain an independent auditor to review the two entities' joint services agreement (JSA).
22 March 2007
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