Jun 07, 2023 / 07:30PM GMT
Patrick Moley - Piper Sandler - Analyst
Welcome back everyone to our 20th Annual Global Exchange and Fintech Conference. As we get -- pickup steam and momentum here towards the end, I know this next speaker brings energy and a lot of optimism and excitement to his business. So it's Howard Lutnick, he's the Chairman and CEO of BGCP. I've known Howard literally for 20 -- I think going on 25 years, we were just discussing this. I picked up coverage of eSpeed, a predecessor company that -- I shouldn't say predecessors' company -- he sold to NASDAQ back in early 2013.
Anyway, so how it's businesses have evolved. Now, BGCP is a interdealer broker of one of the -- probably the top one to two prominent interdealer brokers. And the environment looks much more promising than it has in a number of years, as you talked about.
Questions and Answers:
Patrick Moley - Piper Sandler - AnalystSo I guess how -- I'm going to let you launch you off on talking about how good is the -- what has changed, what makes the environment positive for BGCP versus the X number