Robert Hayes

BGC Partners, Inc. engages in the provision of brokerage services to the financial markets. The firm offers integrated voice, hybrid and fully electronic brokerage in a broad range of products, including fixed income, foreign exchange, equities, insurance, energy and commodities and futures. It also provides trade execution, brokerage, clearing, trade compression, post-trade, information and other back-office services. The company was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of BGC Group, Inc., BGC International is a pioneering brokerage and British financial technology company servicing the financial markets. Founded in 1986, the company is based in London, UK. Built upon the foundation of cutting edge technology and exceptional talent, BGC International offers innovative solutions to its clients in the financial industry.

Part of BGC Group, Inc., Kyte Capital Management Ltd. is a British company that provides capital to start up trading groups, small hedge funds, market-makers, and individual sole traders. The company is based in London, UK and was founded in 2004.

Part of BGC Group, Inc., BGC Technology Support Services Ltd. is a brokerage and British financial technology company servicing the financial markets. Founded in 2009, the company is based in London, UK. The company's description highlights its foundation of cutting-edge technology and exceptional talent.

Founded in 2000, BGC Global Ltd. is a British non-trading company that operates as a subsidiary of BGC Group, Inc. The company is based in London, UK.

Part of BGC Group, Inc., Martin Brokers Group Ltd. is a British company that provides commodity brokerages support services. The company is based in London, UK.

Founded in 2010, Sunrise Global Brokers Ltd. is a British consumer finance company that operates as part of BGC Group, Inc. The company is based in London, UK.

GFI Holdings Ltd. provides market brokerage services. It provides services multitude of global over-the- and exchange listed cash and derivatives markets for fixed income, equities, financials and commodities. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

BGC Partners LP is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a leading global intermediary to the wholesale financial markets, specializing in the brokering of a broad range of financial products including fixed-income, rates, foreign exchange, equity derivatives, credit derivatives, futures and structured product markets. Previously a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, BCG separated from that firm in 2004. In 2005, BGC merged with Maxcor Financial Group, integrating two leading brokerage firms. This was followed by the acquisitions of ETC Pollak and Aurel in Paris. On April 1, 2008, BGC merged with eSpeed to form a world-class provider of voice and electronic brokerage services in the global marketplace. The combined company is BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP). BGC offers a full range of brokerage services including price discovery, trade execution, straight through processing and clearing, settlement and access to electronic trading services through its eSpeed and BGC Trader brands.

Founded in 1985, NatWest Markets Securities, Inc. is a financial services and brokerage firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm is a subsidiary of RBS Holdings USA, Inc. and their ultimate parent is the Royal Bank of Scotland Plc (LSE: RBS). The firm was formerly known as RBS Securities, Inc., RBS Greenwich Capital, and Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc. NatWest is an institutional fixed-income firm that provides a full range of debt capital markets services to both those seeking to raise capital and those seeking to invest it. The firm is an industry leader in the U.S. Treasury, agency and MBS markets and in providing real estate and asset-backed financing to their clients. NatWest also provides futures brokerage services and trade strategies to select clients.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

BGC Brokers LP (BGC) is a brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded by and is a subsidiary of BGC European Holdings LP, ultimately owned by BGC Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGC) in the US. BGC provides broking services to broker-dealers, banks, and a range of institutional investors and other sophisticated institutional wholesale market participants.