ABOUT PRIME SERVICES
Leveraging our clearing, financing, and execution capabilities to provide high-quality, tailored solutions to meet our clients’ investment needs.
We believe in the value of building a partnership with our clients – from start-up hedge funds to the largest institutional investors and everyone in between. We see each relationship as unique, and focus on providing the right technology, services, and solutions at every stage of their growth. Our broad reach, extensive industry experience, and deep understanding of our clients’ objectives allow us to provide a truly unique set of capabilities.
Cantor’s full-service offering and high-touch approach ensures clients have access to our global multi-asset self-clearing and execution capabilities. We also provide comprehensive financing solutions – from classic repo, portfolio margin, swaps, outsourced trading, and securities lending to tailored capital introduction services – through our global investor network.
At a Glance
Our Capabilities
Equity & Fixed Income Prime Services
Equity & Fixed Income Prime Services
Our prime services platform provides clients with the ability to trade, clear, settle, custody, and finance a wide-range of financial instruments and strategies tailored to meet their specific goals.
We offer institutional investors global multi-asset self-clearing capabilities for emerging and niche strategies. Our global network also allows us to clear and custody securities in markets around the world.
Comprehensive Financing Solutions
Comprehensive Financing Solutions
We provide a full suite of financing capabilities across equities and fixed income products, designed to help clients efficiently manage their liquidity and financing needs.
We offer a range of financing solutions – including margin financing, securities lending, repo financing, synthetic financing, and fully paid lending – and partner closely with each client to tailor solutions to meet their needs.
Capital Introduction
Capital Introduction
With our extensive relationship network of institutional investors, we carefully facilitate client introductions with the right investors to ensure strategies and investment goals are aligned. We also consult on fund positioning, approach, strategy, and marketing, and provide access to our proprietary events so our clients can build relationships with institutional investors across the globe.
Market-Leading Expertise, Unparalleled Service
Market-Leading Expertise, Unparalleled Service
With one of the highest client service ratings in the industry, our team of market experts connects clients with senior leaders across our organization. Our team also can act as an extension of a client’s back-office function, managing their day-to-day operational, cash management, and funding needs.
Innovative Technology Solutions
Innovative Technology Solutions
We offer clients access to Cantor Prime Portal, a multi-asset, multi-currency reporting platform that scales with to meet their evolving needs. Cantor Prime Portal is a robust and customizable architecture that provides a flexible data reporting platform, providing an enhanced and efficient client experience.
The platform connects seamlessly with third-party service providers and integrates with clients’ own technology systems. It also delivers fully automated data and access to end of day and real-time data on finance, margin, risk, custody, stock loan, cash management, and operations.
Outsourced Trading Desk (“OTD”)
Outsourced Trading Desk (“OTD”)
Clients can leverage Cantor’s infrastructure, expertise, and experience utilizing the firm’s global outsourced trading desk, which provides access to equities and options markets. This ensures clients can avoid the costs of setting up and managing their own in-house trading operation.
Our OTD can help clients improve trade execution and maintain client anonymity. It also provides access to Cantor’s premium market research and data tools, as well as competitive commission rates and back-office support.
Our Leadership
Pascal Bandelier
Senior Managing Director
Global Head of Equities
Christian Wall
Senior Managing Director
Global Head of Fixed Income
Pascal Bandelier
Pascal Bandelier
Senior Managing Director
Global Head of Equities
Pascal Bandelier is a Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Equities at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.
Mr. Bandelier joined Cantor in 2017. Previously, he was the Head of Equity Execution Trading at Barclays from 2013 to 2017, where he was responsible for the trading, sales trading, desk analyst, and low-touch electronic businesses. Before that, he was Head of TMT Cash Equity Trading at Morgan Stanley, and Head of Cash Equity Trading & Risk at Nomura, where he grew the business from 67th to 10th in market share in less than one year.
From 2001 to 2010, Mr. Bandelier worked at Lehman Brothers/Barclays, starting his career as a Cash Equity Trader and later joining Barclays in the merger as the Managing Director, Head of TMT Cash Equity Trading & Co-Head of Equity Risk.
Mr. Bandelier is a graduate of Northwestern University and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics.
Christian Wall
Christian Wall
Senior Managing Director
Global Head of Fixed Income
Mr. Wall joined Cantor in 2017 as the Head of the Structured Products Group (SPG) and a member of the Fixed Income Operating Committee. In this role, he helped build and led the sales, trading, and banking teams across the SPG platform. Prior to joining Cantor in 2017, Mr. Wall spent seven years as a Managing Director in Non-Agency trading at Credit Suisse, which was the number one ranked Non-Agency trading business in the US at the time. Before Credit Suisse, he worked at Barclays, Deutsche Bank, and UBS, trading various Agency-backed and Non-Agency mortgage products.
Mr. Wall holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Contact
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