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Disclosure Information:
BGC Financial Inc. (BGC) does not currently execute
purchase and sell orders for most clients, but instead
routes these orders to other market centers for
execution.
Under normal circumstances, BGC routes most orders to Lek
Securities Corporation (LSC) for execution and routing
services. BGC does not receive any payment for order flow
for routing orders to LSC.
LSC routes all non-directed orders to an exchange, market
maker or ECN that matches or is deemed likely to improve
the then-current national best bid or offer (NBBO) for the
particular security. Certain of these venues provide
payments or charge access fees to LSC depending on the
characteristics of the order and any subsequent
execution.
Those charges and payments are passed on to BGC. The
details of these payments and fees are available upon
written request.
BGC is not a market maker, but stands to share in up to
100% of any profits generated by trading as 'riskless'
principal with its customer orders.
BGC and LSC regularly review reports for quality of
execution purposes.