BGC Partners

Company Background

Original Requirements

Further Requirements

Benefits of using Oakstone

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Company Background

Headquartered in London and New York, BGC Partners (NASDAQ: BGCP) provides a wide range of services including trade execution, broker-dealer services, clearing, processing, information and other back-office services.

They offer their customers access to more than 200 financial products including fixed income securities, interest rate swaps, foreign exchange, equities, equity derivatives, credit derivatives, commercial real estate, commodities, futures and structured products.

Their customers include a vast majority of the world’s largest banks, broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds, governments, corporations, property owners, real estate developers, and investment firms.

Original Requirements

Oakstone’s relationship with BGC Partners started with the Global Head of Middle Technology who has since been promoted to the CTO at BGC’s FENICS brand.

Oakstone had numerous requirements, which meant expanding our team to keep up with the demand of the company.  The relationship involved partnering together to find out the demands of BGC and see how we could get results from this.

We now have consultants within Oakstone who work exclusively on BGC partner roles to find skilled, experienced and talented individuals quickly.

Further Requirement

The company’s equirements are ongoing as their business is naturally expanding, which is similar to our own. Their key requirements are to deliver new talent into their existing company and also use Oakstone’s services to expand companies such as Kalahari, which is a software that they use internally and have now acquired.

Our relationship with BGC means we have developed trust, commitment and results so our relationship will continue to thrive, producing more results in the future.

Benefits of using Oakstone

As Oakstone are new to working within fintech, it’s great to have a fresh approach by applying our knowledge and skills to finding the right people for BGC.  For BGC it is beneficial to work with Oakstone as we are a niche specialist, so we have a more personable relationship with more visibility and communication.

“Oakstone is better than any of the other recruiter we have used because they simply listen to our feedback. We don’t have people who are presented to us, who for example, are possibly going to move, they find candidates who are motivated candidates who are motivated to join us and Oakstone find those people in good time.”

- Matt Smith, Vice President of BGC Partners