BGC Partners' and GFI Group's Second Quarter 2015 Financial Results Announcement to be Issued Prior to Market Open on Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Conference Call Scheduled for the same day at 10:00 a.m. ET

NEW YORK, July 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) ("BGC Partners," "BGC," or the "Company"), a leading global brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate markets and BGC's majority-owned division, GFI Group Inc. (OTC: GFIG) ("GFI Group" or "GFI"), a leading intermediary and provider of trading technologies and support services to the global OTC and listed markets, today announced that they plan to issue a joint advisory press release regarding the availability of their consolidated quarterly financial results by 8:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday, July 29, 2015.

BGC owns approximately 67 percent of GFI's common shares and GFI's financial results will be consolidated with those of BGC. Therefore, BGC and GFI will be issuing a joint advisory release notifying the public that a full-text financial results press release will be accessible at any of the following pages:

http://ir.bgcpartners.com (an HTML version with Excel financial tables or PDF)

http://ir.bgcpartners.com/news-releases (an HTML version with Excel financial tables or PDF)

http://www.bgcpartners.com/news-centre/press-releases (PDF only)

BGC will host a conference call on Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. ET to discuss these results.

WHO:	BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ:  BGCP) & GFI Group Inc. (OTC: GFIG)
WHAT:	Second Quarter 2015 financial results conference call
WHEN:	Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. ET
WHERE:	The "Investor Relations" section at http://www.bgcpartners.com
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