name: BGC Group description: | BGC Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGC), formerly BGC Partners, is a global brokerage and financial technology firm. Headquartered in New York and London, BGC operates electronic and voice broking across foreign exchange, interest rate derivatives, fixed income, energy and commodities, equity derivatives, credit, and futures. Its technology portfolio includes the FMX division (FMX UST, FMX FX, and FMX Futures Exchange — launched September 23, 2024 for SOFR futures), Fenics Market Data (the exclusive data distributor for BGC and its affiliates), Capitalab (post-trade optimization), Lucera (LumeMarkets cross-asset trading platform and Lucera Connect/Compute infrastructure), and GFI Group. BGC spun off Newmark Group (NASDAQ: NMRK) on November 30, 2018. Public developer documentation is generally gated behind sales engagement; protocol specifications (FIX, ITCH/SoupBinTCP, BIMP, BOP) exist for institutional clients. url: https://www.bgcg.com image: https://www.bgcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/BGC-Group-Logo.svg humanURL: https://www.bgcg.com specificationVersion: '0.18' type: Index aid: bgc-partners access: 3rd-Party created: '2026-05-05' modified: '2026-05-23' tags: - Brokerage - Inter-Dealer Broker - Financial Services - Capital Markets - Market Data - Foreign Exchange - Fixed Income - Interest Rate Derivatives - Energy And Commodities - Equity Derivatives - Credit Derivatives - Futures Exchange - SOFR - US Treasuries - Post-Trade - Trading Infrastructure - Financial Technology - Fortune 1000 maintainers: - FN: API Evangelist email: info@apievangelist.com apis: - name: FMX Futures Exchange Connectivity description: | FMX Futures Exchange launched September 23, 2024, initially listing SOFR futures (the largest notional futures contract in the world) and adding U.S. Treasury futures in Q1 2025. Equity partners include Bank of America, Barclays, Citadel Securities, Citi, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Jump Trading Group, Morgan Stanley, Tower Research Capital, and Wells Fargo. The exchange clears through LCH Limited. The platform represents "over $200 million of technological investment." Native connectivity is provided to institutional members via FIX protocol and proprietary binary feeds; specifications are distributed to onboarded participants. humanURL: https://www.fmxfutures.com baseURL: https://www.fmxfutures.com image: https://www.fmxfutures.com/favicon.ico aid: bgc-partners:fmx-futures tags: - Futures Exchange - SOFR - US Treasuries - FIX Protocol - Market Data - Derivatives properties: - type: Portal url: https://www.fmxfutures.com - type: Documentation url: https://www.fmx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/FMX-Futures-Exchange-Overview-June-2024-1.pdf - type: PressRelease url: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bgc-group-launches-fmx-futures-exchange-302256660.html - name: FMX UST description: | FMX UST (formerly Fenics UST) is BGC's electronic trading venue for U.S. Treasuries. Connectivity is a "point-to-point service based on industry standards TCP/IP and the FIX Protocol." Supports FIX 4.4 with selected FIX 5.0 tags; proprietary BOP (Binary Order Protocol) over TCP for order entry; BIMP (Binary Market Data Protocol) over multicast for market data; Drop Copy and STP services. Order book depth of 10 price levels in increments of 1/16 of a 32nd. humanURL: https://www.fenicsust.com baseURL: https://www.fenicsust.com aid: bgc-partners:fmx-ust tags: - US Treasuries - Electronic Trading - FIX Protocol - Binary Protocol - Market Data - Central Limit Order Book properties: - type: Portal url: https://www.fenicsust.com - type: Documentation url: https://www.fenicsust.com/technology/ - name: FMX FX (Fenics FX) description: | FMX FX (operating as Fenics FX) is BGC's electronic foreign exchange platform covering Spot, Forwards, NDFs and Options. Integration is offered via FIX (order entry) and ITCH/OUCH (market data and order entry) protocols. The Fenics FX ITCH market data service uses SoupBinTCP on top of TCP for session control and delivers tick-by-tick quote updates over a single TCP/IP connection. humanURL: https://www.fenicsfx.com baseURL: https://www.fenicsfx.com aid: bgc-partners:fmx-fx tags: - Foreign Exchange - FX Spot - FX Forwards - NDF - FX Options - FIX Protocol - ITCH - OUCH - SoupBinTCP - Market Data properties: - type: Portal url: https://www.fenicsfx.com - type: Documentation url: https://www.fenicsfx.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/FenicsFX_ITCH_MarketData.pdf - type: Specification url: https://www.fenicsfx.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/FenicsFX_ITCH_MarketData_v7.pdf - name: Fenics Market Data description: | Fenics Market Data (FMD) is the exclusive data distributor of BGC Group, Inc. and its affiliates. FMD provides streaming, intra-day, end-of-day and historical market data across Foreign Exchange (350+ currency pairs with history from 2005), Interest Rate Derivatives (30+ currencies, 290+ curves), Fixed Income (US Treasuries, global government bonds, corporate bonds, CDS), Inflation Derivatives, Energy & Commodities, and Equity Derivatives. Delivery formats include Pricing/Modelled curves and surfaces and Orderbook/Level 2 consolidated quotes. Distribution channels include "API, Desktop, Excel, Cloud, FTP, SFTP, and Deployed/Onsite Servers" with FIX/API and binary protocols for low-latency feeds. humanURL: https://www.fenicsmd.com baseURL: https://www.fenicsmd.com aid: bgc-partners:fenics-market-data tags: - Market Data - Reference Data - Historical Data - Pricing - Curves And Surfaces - Level 2 - Foreign Exchange - Interest Rates - Fixed Income - Energy And Commodities - Inflation - Regulatory Solutions properties: - type: Portal url: https://www.fenicsmd.com - type: Products url: https://www.fenicsmd.com/products/ - type: DirectFeedAndAPI url: https://www.fenicsmd.com/delivery/direct-feed-and-api/ - type: Distribution url: https://www.lseg.com/en/data-analytics/financial-data/pricing-and-market-data/fixed-income-pricing-data/fenics-market-data - name: Lucera LumeMarkets description: | Lucera is BGC's financial technology subsidiary offering a "high-performance, low latency platform that provides a single API for aggregating and trading across multiple markets – FX, Rates, Futures, Crypto, and Credit." Product portfolio: Connect (SDN connectivity), Compute (on-demand infrastructure), LumeMarkets (cross-asset trading platform), and LumeFX (FX-focused offering). The single-API cross-asset trading surface is the most explicit programmatic API in the BGC family. humanURL: https://www.lucera.com baseURL: https://www.lucera.com aid: bgc-partners:lucera tags: - Trading Infrastructure - Cross-Asset Trading - Aggregation - SDN - Low Latency - FX - Rates - Futures - Crypto - Credit - Single API properties: - type: Portal url: https://www.lucera.com - name: Capitalab description: | Capitalab is BGC's post-trade compression, optimization and risk-mitigation arm. It executes initial margin optimization runs across interest rate, FX, inflation and credit derivatives portfolios for banks and dealers, integrating with central counterparty clearing houses and bilateral OTC books. Programmatic engagement is operated through Capitalab's bespoke onboarding rather than a public API. humanURL: https://www.capitalab.com baseURL: https://www.capitalab.com aid: bgc-partners:capitalab tags: - Post-Trade - Compression - Initial Margin Optimization - Risk Mitigation - Derivatives - Rates - Credit - FX properties: - type: Portal url: https://www.capitalab.com - name: GFI Group description: | GFI Group, Inc. is a wholly owned BGC subsidiary — "a leading intermediary and provider of trading technologies and support services to the global OTC and listed markets." GFI offers voice and electronic brokerage in fixed income, FX, energy, credit and equity derivatives, along with software such as Trayport (now divested) historically and Fenics-branded data and analytics today. humanURL: https://www.gfigroup.com baseURL: https://www.gfigroup.com aid: bgc-partners:gfi-group tags: - Inter-Dealer Broker - OTC Markets - Voice Broking - Electronic Broking - Trading Technology properties: - type: Portal url: https://www.gfigroup.com common: - type: Portal url: https://www.bgcg.com - type: InvestorRelations url: https://ir.bgcg.com - type: PressReleases url: https://www.bgcg.com/press-releases/ - type: News url: https://www.bgcg.com/news/ - type: Careers url: https://www.bgcg.com/careers/ - type: Contact url: https://www.bgcg.com/contact/ - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://www.bgcg.com/privacy-policy/ - type: TermsOfUse url: https://www.bgcg.com/terms-of-use/ - type: SECFilings url: https://ir.bgcg.com/financials/sec-filings/ - type: AnnualReports url: https://ir.bgcg.com/financials/annual-reports/ - type: StockTicker url: https://ir.bgcg.com/stock-info/stock-quote/ data: exchange: NASDAQ symbol: BGC - type: SpinOff url: https://www.nmrk.com data: name: Newmark Group ticker: NMRK completed: '2018-11-30' - type: Subsidiary url: https://www.fmx.com data: name: FMX Holdings launched: '2024-09-23' equityPartners: - Bank of America - Barclays - Citadel Securities - Citi - Goldman Sachs - J.P. Morgan - Jump Trading Group - Morgan Stanley - Tower Research Capital - Wells Fargo - type: ClearingPartner url: https://www.lch.com data: name: LCH Limited relationship: FMX Futures Exchange clearing - type: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bgc-group/ - type: Vocabulary url: vocabulary/bgc-partners-vocabulary.yml - type: JSONLD url: json-ld/bgc-partners-context.jsonld - type: Plans url: plans/bgc-partners-plans-pricing.yml - type: RateLimits url: rate-limits/bgc-partners-rate-limits.yml - type: FinOps url: finops/bgc-partners-finops.yml