BGC Group, Inc. announced the addition of a Weather Derivatives Team with the hire of Nicholas and Eric Ernst. Nicholas joins the firm as Managing Director, BGC Weather Derivatives while Eric joins as Weather Broker. Nicholas Ernst brings with him over 20 years of experience in the weather derivatives and risk transfer space.
Prior to joining BGC, he served as Managing Director, Weather Markets at ICAP. Additionally, Nicholas spent time in similar roles at OTC Global and Evolutions Markets. Before joining BGC, Eric Ernst served as a Weather Broker at ICAP.
Prior to that, Eric held various roles at Choice Energy and spent three years in the renewable energy sector.
BGC Group, Inc. is a global brokerage and financial technology company servicing the financial markets. The Company, through its affiliates, specializes in the brokerage of a range of products, including fixed income, foreign exchange, equities, energy and commodities, shipping, and futures. It also provides a variety of services, including trade execution, brokerage, clearing, trade compression, post-trade, information, and other back-office services to a range of financial and non-financial institutions. Through its brands, including Fenics, FMX, FMX Futures Exchange, Fenics Markets Xchange, Fenics Digital, Fenics UST, Fenics FX, Fenics Repo, Fenics Direct, Fenics MID, Fenics Market Data, Fenics GO, Fenics PortfolioMatch, BGC, BGC Trader, KACE and Lucera, it offers financial technology solutions, market data, and analytics related to numerous financial instruments and markets. It serves banks, broker-dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds, governments and corporations.
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