On October 18, 2021, Howard W. Lutnick, Chairman of the Board and Chief
Executive Officer of BGC Partners, Inc. (the "Company"), informed the employees
of the Company via video that he was recently diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's
Lymphoma. Mr. Lutnick's form of cancer is highly treatable and he and his
physicians expect that he will be cancer-free in four months. Mr. Lutnick's
treatment plan includes six chemotherapy treatments beginning on October 18,
2021 and running through the end of January 2022. Mr. Lutnick expects to
continue to serve the Company during this time. The video is available on the
Company's website at www.bgcpartners.com/internal/2021-2/message. The video is
also available at https://youtu.be/wNCkHpJVbbo and
https://rumble.com/vnxazp-sharing-my-video.html.
BGC Group, Inc. is a global brokerage and financial technology company servicing the financial markets. The Company, through its affiliates, specializes in the brokerage of a range of products, including fixed income, foreign exchange, equities, energy and commodities, shipping, and futures. It also provides a variety of services, including trade execution, brokerage, clearing, trade compression, post-trade, information, and other back-office services to a range of financial and non-financial institutions. Through its brands, including Fenics, FMX, FMX Futures Exchange, Fenics Markets Xchange, Fenics Digital, Fenics UST, Fenics FX, Fenics Repo, Fenics Direct, Fenics MID, Fenics Market Data, Fenics GO, Fenics PortfolioMatch, BGC, BGC Trader, KACE and Lucera, it offers financial technology solutions, market data, and analytics related to numerous financial instruments and markets. It serves banks, broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds, governments and corporations.