BGC Brokers L.P
Reference number: 454814
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Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
Identity
Check their details
Compare these against whatever you were given. Scammers clone real firm names and reference numbers but use their own phone number and website, so a detail that does not match the register is the clearest warning sign there is.
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Verified phone number
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Verified address
5 Churchill Place, London, E14 5RD, United Kingdom
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Company details
From the company's Companies House record.
- Company number
- LP011453
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Limited partnership
- Incorporated
- 13 July 2006 (20 years old)
- Registered office
- 5 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5RD
Warning
Scammers have impersonated this firm
Fraudsters have used this firm's name or details with their own contact information to appear genuine. Check whatever you were given below, and against the firm's real details above.
Fake phone numbers (8)
- +971521045342
- 020 3059 7850
- 020 3059 7877
- 020 3097 9384
- 020 7310 8794
- 07441 443484
- 07563 595227
- 07731 899784
Fake email addresses (5)
- admin@bgcpartnersfx.com
- info@bgcinvest.com
- support@bgc-brokers-lp.com
- support@primespotway.com
- support@wwwbgc-brokers-lp.org
Fake websites (9)
- bgc-brokers-lp.com
- bgc-brokers-lp.org
- bgc4invest.com
- bgcmarkets.net
- bgcpartnerfx.com
- bgcpartnersfx.net
- primespotway.com
- primespotway.net
- user.bgc-brokers-lp.ltd
The 6 FCA warnings these came from
- bgc-brokers-lp.com 25 July 2025
- Bgc4invest 16 February 2023
- BgcpartnersFX 11 November 2022
- Primespotway 14 October 2022
- Tiger 21 Wealth Management, t/a United Brokers 20 June 2019
- BGC Markets 13 May 2014
Scammers change these details often. Always check the live FCA warning.
Activities and protection
What they can do, and how you are protected
- Hold or safeguard your money · Manage or trade investments FSCS may applyEligible investment and pension claims are typically FSCS-protected up to £85,000 per person, depending on the product and your circumstances.
- Give regulated advice FSCS may applyA claim for unsuitable advice is itself FSCS-protected, up to the limit that applies to the product you were advised on.
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- Administering a Benchmark
- Advising on investments (except on Pension Transfers and Pension Opt Outs)
- Advising on P2P agreements
- Arranging (bringing about) deals in investments
- Arranging safeguarding and administration of assets
- Dealing in investments as agent
- Dealing in investments as principal
- Making arrangements with a view to transactions in investments
- Operating an Organised Trading Facility (OTF)
- Safeguarding and administration of assets (without arranging)
Limits on what they may do
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Requirement 21 August 2019 (Amended 03 April 2020)
1. Subject to paragraph 2, BGC will ensure that its compliance function pre-certifies and records that the transmission of any client order in listed derivative instruments to an affiliate within the BGC Group is in the best interest of the client, including that the relevant affiliate does not charge commission to any relevant liquidity provider. This requirement will continue until such time as BGC has satisfied the FCA that it has implemented the necessary systems and controls to consistently achieve an equivalent outcome. 2. BGC is permitted to transmit orders to the electronic platform (“FENICS GO”) on which trades are arranged by BGC’s French affiliate, Aurel BGC (or other affiliates which BGC may notify the FCA of from time to time), provided that BGC has processes and procedures in place to ensure any relevant liquidity provider on the other side of a trade intermediated by a UK designated broker to FENICS GO are not charged a commission.
Complaints: You can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
Track record
Action taken against them
1 fine in 2022, £2.41m in total. This is part of the official register record and is worth reviewing before going ahead.
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Fined £2.41m on 14 December 2022
On 7 December 2022, the Financial Conduct Authority (the FCA) imposed a financial penalty of £2,413,788 on BGC Brokers LP (BGC) for breaches of Principle 3 of the FCA's Principles for Businesses (Principle 3) and Article 16(2) of the Market Abuse Regulation. A summary of the decision is set out below. Full details of the decision can be found in the Final Notice on the FCA's website.
Names it no longer trades under
This firm has retired 6 trading names. If you were contacted under one of these, the name did belong to this firm, but check the current details above before going ahead.
Show the retired names
- Aurel
- CapitaLab
- FENICS
- Martin Brokers
- R.P. Martin
- R.P. Martin Fixed Income
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