BGC Partners' And GFI Group's Third Quarter 2015 Financial Results Announcement To Be Issued Prior To Market Open On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - Conference Call Scheduled For The Same Day At 10:00 A.M. ET

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, October 28, 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://bgcpartners.com/category/bgc-releases/

BGC will host a conference call on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. ET to discuss these results. 

A webcast replay of the conference call is expected to be accessible at the "Investor Relations" section of http://www.bgcpartners.com within 24 hours of the live call for 365 days following the call.  Additionally, call participants may dial in with the following information:

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