Cantor Index
May 11, 2009 | By Spreadbetting
Cantor Fitzgerald L.P. is a global financial services firm specializing in bond trading, as well as investment banking, asset management, market data and brokerage services. It was founded in 1945 by Bernard Gerald Cantor and John Fitzgerald as a limited partnership and remains so today. Cantor Fitzgerald is one of 21 primary dealers who are permitted to trade U.S. government securities directly with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Cantor Fitzgerald lost 658 employees (all of the employees in the office that day), or about two-thirds of its workforce in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Cantor Fitzgerald established Cantor Index on the U.K. spread-betting scene in 2000, using a powerful trading platform developed from the professional eSpeed system..
Features
• prices quoted on all U.K. stocks with a market capitalisation greater than £ 50m, unless there are specific difficulties associated with a particular stock; may, at its discretion, quote a price on U.K .stocks of smaller capitalisation
• prices quoted on all stocks in the Eurostoxx 50, and all stocks in the S&P 500, unless there are specific difficulties associated with a particular stock; may, at its discretion, also quote a price on other stocks
• £10 minimum stake size for spread bets opened or closed via the telephone
• margin required for single share trading is a minimum of 15% of the contract value
• offers prices in a number of special and ‘grey’ markets. These will include interest rate decisions, upcoming economic data, forthcoming political events, shares issues etc. Ring the company or see their website for details
• up to the minute news from Dow Jones
• Cantor Academy programme of free seminars focusing on aspects of spread betting and trading, with the aim of helping clients build confidence and knowledge
• Refer and Earn scheme for existing clients who submit details of a friend or colleague who might like to open a spread betting account with Cantor Index. Once they open an account and go on to place and settle five bets the referring client will receive £100
• referred clients who open an account will have their first deposit of up to £100 matched by Cantor Index
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