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BGC Group acquisitions, on the record

The businesses BGC Group bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.

Deals its annual reports describe

Business	Deal	When	Value
Brokerage insurance business Word for word“us-gaap:DisposalGroupDisposedOfBySaleNotDiscontinuedOperationsMember bgcp:BrokerageInsuranceMember 2021-11-01 2021-11-01” 10-K for 2023	divestiture	2021-11-01	—
OTC Global Word for word“In October 2024, we acquired Sage, an energy and environmental brokerage firm, and announced we entered into a definitive agreement to acquire OTC Global, the largest global independent institutional energy and commodities brokerage firm.” 10-K for 2024	agreed acquisition	—	—
Trident Brokerage Service LLC Word for word“Trident Brokerage Service LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, acquired on February 28, 2023” 10-K for 2024	acquisition	February 28, 2023	—
ContiCap SA Word for word“ContiCap SA, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, acquired on November 1, 2023” 10-K for 2024	acquisition	November 1, 2023	—
Open Energy Group Inc. Word for word“Open Energy Group Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, acquired on November 1, 2023” 10-K for 2024	acquisition	November 1, 2023	—
The Insurance brokerage business (sold to The Ardonagh Group) Word for word“The sale of the Insurance brokerage business for $534.9 million in gross cash proceeds after closing adjustments, subject to limited post-closing adjustments, completed on November 1, 2021” 10-K for 2024	divestiture	November 1, 2021	$534.9 million in gross cash proceeds after closing adjustments
FMX Separation (FMX business contributed to FMX) Word for word“On April 23, 2024, BGC and FMX entered into a separation agreement pursuant to which BGC contributed the assets and liabilities related to FMX’s business to FMX, and pursuant to which BGC and FMX agreed to certain restrictions in the operations of their respective businesses” 10-K for 2024	divestiture	April 23, 2024	—
Futures Exchange Group Word for word“We also acquired the Futures Exchange Group from Cantor in July 2021, which represents our futures exchange and related clearinghouse.” 10-K for 2024	acquisition	July 2021	—
Ginga Petroleum (Singapore) Pte Ltd Word for word“Ginga Petroleum (Singapore) Pte Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, acquired on March 12, 2019” 10-K for 2024	acquisition	March 12, 2019	—
Poten & Partners Group, Inc. Word for word“Poten & Partners Group, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, acquired on November 15, 2018” 10-K for 2024	acquisition	November 15, 2018	—

As filedReported in the company's financial data (XBRL), each linked to its filing
Fiscal year ended	Cash paid for acquisitions (net of cash acquired)	Goodwill from acquisitions
2016-12-31	$151.8 million	$53.4 million
2017-12-31	−$13.7 million	$29.5 million
2018-12-31	$50.6 million	$39.7 million
2019-12-31	−$28.3 million	$55.9 million
2020-12-31	$7.9 million	$3.1 million
2021-12-31	$0	—
2022-12-31	$0	—
2023-12-31	$39.8 million	$19.9 million
2024-12-31	$64.2 million	$35.5 million
2025-12-31	$280.7 million	$94.3 million

Deal filings since 2016

2026-05-15 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2025-04-02 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2024-12-06 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2024-06-10 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2024-04-30 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2024-03-12 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2023-10-06 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2023-09-20 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2023-05-25 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2022-11-16 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2022-08-12 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2022-03-14 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2021-11-01 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2021-05-26 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2020-07-14 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-12-13 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-09-30 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-12-06 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2018-11-30 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-11-27 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-11-13 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-11-08 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-09-28 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-08-07 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-07-25 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-06-20 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-03-23 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-03-07 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-12-19 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-11-28 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-09-08 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-09-08 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2017-07-21 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-04-13 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-12-16 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-05-31 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-01-15 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-01-12 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets

Read from BGC Group’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-03-02. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.