Results tagged “BGC Partners”

Prince Harry earned the bragging rights in the Royal Household after breaking his brother's world record for the biggest foreign exchange transaction.

The Prince completed a trade for 18billion euros at BGC Partners in Canary Wharf, eclipsing the record the Duke of Cambridge set last year by a billion.

Strong winds failed to blow away the enjoyment for competitors in the 2010 Banks and Brokers Golf Championship final.

The Doonbeg Golf Club in County Clare in Ireland hosted the golfers last Sunday and Monday, with the City Golf Clubs team of Elliott Lake, Ashley Moore, Matt Cave and Ian Holloway, claiming victory with a score of 71 points under Stableford rules.

The annual charity trading day at BGC Partners attracted the usual array of talent with the likes of Jonathan Ross, Roger Daltrey and Sir Trevor Brooking all in attendance.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson kicked things off this morning, and he was followed onto the trading floor by a host of sports stars, actors, singers and, er, the Cheeky Girls.

England need to forget their Ashes euphoria and prove a point this winter according to one of cricket's all-time greats.

Sir Ian Botham, who was in Canary Wharf on Monday, thinks the forthcoming tour to South Africa is a bigger test for Andrew Strauss's team than Australia were in the summer, and he's expecting big things.

BGC Partners' celebrity trading day saw a host of celebrities heading to their Churchill Place offices for the annual charity event.

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, ex-Formula One world champion Damon Hill and Jonathan Ross were among the big names turning up.