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GFI Group Inc.
100 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005
United States - Map
Phone: 212-968-4100
Fax: 212-968-4124
Web Site: http://www.gfinet.com

DETAILS 
Index Membership:N/A
Sector:Financial
Industry:Investment Brokerage - Regional
Full Time Employees:1,599

BUSINESS SUMMARY 
GFI Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides brokerage services, market data, and analytics software products to investment and commercial banks, large corporations, insurance companies, and hedge funds in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. It offers brokerage services for credit derivative products, including single-entity credit default swaps, emerging market credit default swaps, credit indices, options on single-entity credit default swaps, options on credit indices, and credit index tranches; and non-derivative credit instruments, such as investment grade corporate bonds, high yield corporate bonds, emerging market Eurobonds, bank capital preferred shares, asset-backed bonds, and floating rate notes. The company also provides brokerage services for financial instruments, such as foreign exchange options, exotic options, interest rate swaps and options, repurchase agreements, and various government and municipal bond options; equity products comprising the U.S. domestic equity, international equity, equity derivatives, global depositary receipts, and american depositary receipt stocks, and equity derivatives based on indices, stocks, or customized stock structures; and commodity and energy products, including oil, natural gas, biofuel, electricity, wet and dry freight derivatives, dry physical freight, precious metals, coal, weather derivatives, property derivatives, and emissions. In addition, it licenses market data in various product areas, including foreign exchange options, credit derivatives, European repurchase agreements, emerging market bonds, and European and North American energy, as well as offers Fenics analytics products primarily for the foreign exchange option, precious metals, credit derivatives, energy derivatives, property derivatives, and wet and dry freight markets; and Fenics FX, a foreign exchange option pricing and analysis tool. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 
    GFI Group Inc.'s Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ®) as of 1-Nov-08 is better than 50.7% of Russell 3000 companies and 54.7% of Diversified Financials companies.
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    KEY EXECUTIVES 
     PayExercised
    Mr. Michael Gooch , 49
    Founder, Chairman, Chief Exec. Officer and Member of Exec. Committee
    N/A N/A
    Mr. Colin Heffron , 44
    Pres, Director and Member of Risk Policy Committee
    N/A N/A
    Mr. James A. Peers , 57
    Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer
    $ 850.00K $ 2.55M
    Mr. Ronald Daniel Levi , 46
    Chief Operating Officer
    $ 1.79M $ 2.37M
    Mr. John Ashworth ,
    Chief Commercial Officer
    N/A N/A
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-07 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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