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Established in 1945, BGC Partners Inc. is a brokerage service for inter-dealer fixed income markets. Located in New York, N.Y. the company specializes in the brokering of a broad range of financial products, including fixed income securities, interest rate swaps, foreign exchange, equities, equity derivatives, credit derivatives, commodities, futures, structured products and other instruments. It also offers a series of services, such as trade execution, broker-dealer services, clearing, processing and information, to name a few. In addition, the company specializes in foreign exchange, price discovery, price streaming and pretrade analysis.

Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor's business, provides high-impact information and workflow solutions to over 2,400 leading financial institutions, advisory firms and corporations. Its solutions are based on the Capital IQ Platform, which is a combination of global private and public capital market data and technology that enables end-users to draw deep market insights, generate better ideas, leverage relationships and simplify workflow. Its clients can deploy the Capital IQ Platform either as a standalone solution or seamlessly integrate its components into existing business applications and portals through systems integration and data feeds. Capital IQ s parent company, Standard & Poor s is a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, which is one of world s foremost providers of financial market intelligence, including independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data. With approximately 8,500 employees, including wholly owned affiliates, located in over 20 countries and markets, Standard & Poor s is an essential part of world s financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for more than 140 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions.