New York, July 25, 2012 - GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc. (NYSE:”GFIG”) announced today that it has signed a new three yearagreement with Stahlwerk ThüringenGmbH. GFI will continue to supply the German iron and steel producer with European power, coal, gas and emissions market data. 

Stahlwerk Thüringen uses the data provided by GFI to monitor developments in the energy markets. A transparent view assists the iron and steel producer in price discovery, ensures a high level of efficiency and brings value to the procurement business.

ReinhardMoebius, Head Trader at StahlwerkTheüringen commented: “We are very pleased with our relationship with GFI and have, therefore, decided to renew our agreement with them.  GFI data is highly valuable to us because of its depth of liquidity providing access to qualitative pricing which allows us to reduce our costs when purchasing energy”.

“We are committed to our relationship withStahlwerk Thüringen. We strive to provide them with an independent and comprehensive view of the energy markets. Our data derives from our highly experienced brokers as well as from our premier electronic trading screen for energy and commodities in Europe, EnergyMatch® Europe*” said Shai Popat, Head of European Sales at GFI Market Data.

The company Stahlwerk Thüringen GmbH was established in 1992. It was the beginning of a comprehensive modernization of the steel production site Unterwellenborn. The company produces a huge range of IPE and HE sections, channels and UPE-sections and steel sleepers. In all more than 200 sections are produced according to different national and international standards. Since January 2007, Stahlwerk Thüringen has been affiliated to the Alfonso Gallardo Group, the leading manufacturer of re-bars in Spain with about 3000 employees and major manufacturer of sectional steel in Europe.

Through GFI EnergyMatch® Europe, GFI Group’s energy and commodities electronic  trading platform for Europe, GFI Market Data provides a comprehensive view of executable and executed prices in the Power, Gas, Emissions, Coal and Freight markets.  “EnergyMatch® Europe runs on Trayport®’s Broker Trading System^SM technology.  Trayport is a leading provider of energy trading solutions to traders, brokers and exchanges worldwide. It develops, deploys and supports quality, resilient multi-asset class software for trading worldwide in cleared or OTC markets.” 

New York, June 27, 2012 – GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc. (NYSE: GFIG), and Visual Risk announced today that they have entered into an agreement whereby GFI will supply Visual Risk with its full suite of Market Data, which includes data on OTC derivatives in fixed income, FX, energy & commodities, equities and interest rates.

Paul Nailand, Managing Director of Visual Risk said: “We are delighted to have GFI’s Market Data suite available as part of our new Integrated Market Data Service. Corporate treasuries and smaller financial institutions increasingly need to take a more sophisticated approach to valuation and curve construction. The volatility surfaces and other specialised data that GFI provide play an integral role in this process and we are pleased to be able to make them available seamlessly to our customers.”

Philip Winstone, Global Head of Market Data at GFI stated: “GFI is excited to be able to offer Visual Risk’s diverse client base access to our OTC market data. The demand for transparent high quality OTC derivative data has never been higher and this partnership makes GFI data available to a wider audience than traditional financial market participants. Visual Risk’s clients are able to now streamline GFI data directly into their Total Treasury™ system via an automated cloud-based service.”  

Visual Risk is a specialist provider of treasury solutions to public and private sector corporates, debt management intensive entities and financial institutions ranging from commercial banks to credit unions. Covering interest rates, FX, commodities and asset-liability management, Visual Risk delivers a full front-to-back solution encompassing advanced risk dashboard analytics, hedge accounting, back office and cash/liquidity management. Headquartered in Sydney, Visual Risk was founded in 2001 and has over 110 customers in Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia and Europe.

New York, May 23, 2012 - GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc. (NYSE: “GFIG”), announced today that it has entered into an agreement with the UK company Haven Power. GFI will provide the power company with UK and European power data derived from its electronic trading platform and from its brokers.

Tim Whiting, Head of Trading at Haven Power, said: “GFI power data allows us to see where the UK power market is pricing and trading. Our strength as an electricity supplier is helped by this in depth view of the market which allows us to provide greater value to our business customers. Independent prices and accurate spreads are vital to us”.

“We are delighted to welcome Haven Power as a client” said Shai Popat, Head of European Sales at GFI Market Data.” We are supplying them with an independent and comprehensive view of the European energy markets,  from GFI’s highly experienced brokers and through our premier electronic trading screen for energy and commodities in Europe, EnergyMatch® Europe*. The ability to view prices directly on this platform gives our clients access to market data of the highest quality*”.

Haven Power is part of Drax Power, one of the UK's largest independent power companies. Haven Power was launched in 2006 specifically to serve the electricity needs of small to medium sized business customers and to provide an alternative to the large multinational power suppliers. The company employs over 300 staff and has a turnover in excess of £100million.

Through GFI EnergyMatch® Europe, GFI Group’s energy and commodities electronic  trading platform for Europe, GFI Market Data provides a comprehensive view of executable and executed prices in the Power, Gas, Emissions, Coal and Freight markets.  EnergyMatch ®Europe runs on Trayport®’s Broker Trading System^SM technology.  Trayport provides software to brokers, traders, and exchanges for price formation, execution and intelligence technology which is used globally for energy trading.

New York, April 23, 2012 – GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc. (NYSE: GFIG) and QUICK Corp. announced today that they have taken their relationship a step further and signed an agreement whereby GFI will supply QUICK with credit derivatives market data as of April 23, 2012.

GFI Group, via its GFI Market Data division, has supplied QUICK with FX options market data and has been doing so since October 2005.

Gakuji Takahashi, Executive General Manager of QUICK Corp. said, “QUICK is very pleased to enter into this new agreement which will allow us to supply our customers with GFI credit derivatives market data. GFI Group covers a broad range of credit derivative market data, such as sovereign and single name credit default swaps CDS. We believe that the broad coverage to be brought by this relationship will certainly benefit QUICK users as it provides them with a strong tool to support their daily business as well as to continue to meet their requirements in a changing financial environment “ and added, “We are working positively to meet our clients’ needs and expectations.”

Philip Winstone, Global Head of Market Data at GFI stated: “Market data is only as good as its source, and GFI is a globally recognised information hub for credit derivative products. We are very pleased to be able to offer QUICK Corp’s clients access to GFI’s global credit default swap curves and global index and tranche data” and added, “In recognition of today’s demand to have access to independent, accurate and timely data, across the enterprise, GFI’s Credit Derivative data will be available to QUICK’s desktop and enterprise customers”.

GFI is internationally recognized by the market as the No.1 wholesale broker in credit derivatives. GFI’s award winning credit derivatives brokerage desks and its CreditMatch® electronic trading platform help to provide a unique source of real independent market data on the credit derivative markets.

QUICK Corp. is the principal Japanese financial information vendor and a financial information provider in the Nikkei Group. It supplies information to customers in the securities and financial markets. Their service offer includes Japanese, Asian and Global real-time financial information, as well as news and historical information.

New York, April 10, 2012 – GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc. (NYSE: GFIG), announced today that it has extended its long-standing relationship with QUICK Corp.   GFI will continue to provide FX Options market data to the Japanese corporation. QUICK Corp. is part of the Nikkei Group of companies.

Gakuji Takahashi, Executive General Manager of QUICK Corp. said, “QUICK is pleased to renew its contract with GFI and continue the long standing and very active business partnership we have. GFI’s data services are pivotal to our customer base when making trading decisions in the OTC markets”, and added, “This agreement with GFI will enable us to continue to provide our customers with authoritative market data across Japan and worldwide.  Through the partnership with GFI, QUICK works positively to meet the clients’ high expectations.”

Philip Winstone, Global Head of Market Data at GFI stated: “We have provided our FX Options market data to QUICK Corp. and their clients since 2005 and are very honoured to extend this agreement. The need for high quality real market priced FX Options has never been higher and, by extending this long standing relationship, QUICK’s client base will continue to get access to over 100 FX Option currency pairs sourced from our data“.

The currencies offered via QUICK include a significant number of Japanese Yen cross currency option volatility surfaces that will be of particular relevance to the Japanese company’s client base.  Currency pair coverage from GFI Market Data has grown significantly since the data was added in 2005; at the present time it covers 20 Yen crosses.

QUICK Corp. is the principal Japanese financial information vendor and a financial information provider in the Nikkei Group. It supplies information to customers in the securities and financial markets. Their service offer includes Japanese, Asian and Global real-time financial information, as well as news and historical information. 

New York, March 20, 2012 - GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc. (NYSE:”GFIG”), announced today that it has entered into an agreement with the US corporation Summit Energy by which GFI will supply Summit with market data on European gas, power, emissions and coal. GFI will provide historical data as well as streaming updates.

Mark Daubney, a trader at Summit Energy stated: “We use GFI data screens to monitor the wholesale markets and ensure that when dealing with suppliers and or banks to purchase energy and commodities they are reflective of current spreads and prices offered in the OTC market”.

“We are very pleased to welcome Summit Energy as a client - a further sign of our expansion into the US market” said Sue Poulin, Commercial Head of GFI FENICS and Market Data for the Americas, “Due to our highly experienced brokers and our systems being deeply penetrated into these markets, we are confident we will provide Summit with the quality data in energy and the commodities it requires.”.

Summit Energy provides energy management and sustainability services to organizations in a wide range of industries. Summit Energy began in 1991 as a small natural gas consulting firm in Louisville, KY, USA. Summit Energy has grown into a global company that excels in leading companies to cost-effective and sustainable energy.

Through GFI EnergyMatch® Europe, GFI Group’s energy and commodities electronic  trading platform for Europe, GFI Market Data provides a comprehensive view of executable and executed prices in the Power, Gas, Emissions, Coal and Freight markets.  EnergyMatch ® Europe runs on Trayport®’s Broker Trading System^SM technology.  Trayport is a leading provider of energy trading solutions to traders, brokers and exchanges worldwide. It develops, deploys and supports quality, resilient software for trading in any asset class worldwide in cleared or OTC markets.

New York, January 17, 2012 - GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc., announced today that it has entered into an agreement with E.ON Edis. GFI will supply E.ON Edis with historical data as well as streaming updates.

E.ON Group is one of the most important international players within the power industry and a leader in generation and distribution of gas and electric power. The company’s operations are concentrated on the markets of Western and Central Europe, Great Britain, Scandinavia, and USA.

Mario Vogler, E.ON Edis Energy Grid Manager said: "We use the data from GFI as a market price monitor as a part of our daily electricity procurement. The data gives us a very comprehensive market overview; it even includes data from the commodity market which we greatly value" and added, "GFI Market Data is very easy to operate and works very quickly."

"We are very happy to have this opportunity to work with E.ON Edis" said Shai Popat, Head of European Sales at GFI Market Data." We provide an independent and comprehensive view of the energy markets. Our data derives from our brokers as well as from our premier electronic trading screen for energy and commodities, EnergyMatch® Europe. This gives a great insight into the market, providing a view of liquidity and actual market values."

E.ON Edis AG is a member of E.ON Group involved in distribution of power and gas within the territory of federal states of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg – Hither Pomerania. The company is also a shareholder of a number of media suppliers – including supplies of heat to numerous cities in East Germany.

Sourced directly from GFI EnergyMatch® Europe, GFI Group’s energy and commodities electronic trading platform for Europe, GFI Market Data provides a comprehensive view of executable and executed prices in the Power, Gas, Emissions, Coal and Freight markets.

New York, December 7, 2011 - GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc., announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Petrol Energetika, a leading Slovenian energy company and the principal supplier of oil and other energy products to the Slovenian market.

Petrol Energetika will use GFI market data to gain an insight into markets with limited liquidity as well as those that are in the process of deregulating or have done so recently.

Shai Popat, Head of European Sales at GFI Market Data said: "We are very happy to welcome Petrol Energetika as a client. We will strive to provide them with the best quality data in energy and the commodities. Our data derives from EnergyMatch® Europe, our world-class electronic trading platform for energy and commodities, and from our highly experienced brokers. Our strength and reputation as a broker in these regions allow GFI to play a leading role in the provision of high quality market data."

As Eastern European markets deregulate and more players are coming to the market, the need for high quality information is on the rise. GFI is focused on providing a wealth of data that will assist companies like Petrol Energetika in such areas as price discovery, valuation and market risk.

Petrol Energetika is the principal strategic supplier of oil and other energy products to the Slovenian market. The core area of operations of the Petrol Energetika Group is oil trading activities. Petrol Energetika’s principal competitive advantage over potential competitors is its extensive network of 348 modern service stations in Slovenia and abroad. The principal development direction of Group is the introduction of new energy activities, in particular the sale of gas, heat and electricity, but in the long run also renewable energy sources.

Sourced directly from GFI EnergyMatch® Europe, GFI Group’s energy and commodities electronic trading platform for Europe, GFI Market Data provides a comprehensive view of executable and executed prices in the Power, Gas, Emissions, Coal and Freight markets.

New York, July 6, 2011 - GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc., announced today that it has entered into an agreement with ENER-G Procurement Ltd, a specialist consultancy in energy purchase and management, to provide its European power and gas market data. GFI will supply ENER-G Procurement with historical data as well as streaming updates.

Satish Pandey, ENER-G Procurement’s Head of Strategy & Risk Management said: "A leading broker like GFI offers a great deal of liquidity on the range of prices on the forward curve and this offers us greater confidence in our knowledge of the current state of the market. This knowledge helps us to better manage our supplier and client relationships" and added, "Accessing pricing is important but it is key that the liquidity behind those prices comes from a leading energy broker like GFI".

Shai Popat, Head of European Sales at GFI Market Data commented: "We are delighted to have ENER-G Procurement as a client. It is pleasing to see a leading procurement company turning to GFI for an independent and comprehensive view of the energy markets. Our energy brokers are world class as is EnergyMatch®, our electronic trading platform and sourcing the pricing directly from this platform makes our market data of the highest quality."

Sourced directly from GFI EnergyMatch®, GFI Group’s energy and commodities electronic trading platform, GFI Market Data provides a comprehensive view of executable and executed prices in the Power, Gas, Emissions, Coal and Freight markets.

ENER-G Procurement Ltd is a consulting firm that works with companies from a wide range of sectors to develop optimum purchasing strategies. As an independent broker of electricity and natural gas, the company uses its purchasing expertise and market knowledge to secure the best procurement terms possible, while providing specialist services to manage an energy portfolio.

New York, May 4, 2011 – GFI Group (NYSE: “GFIG”) announced today that GFI FENICS has further expanded its commercial team in Asia Pacific with four new hires across the region. Patrick Gassner, will take on the role of Head of Market Data Sales, Asia based in GFI’s Hong Kong office. Gassner joins GFI from Thomson Reuters, where he held the position of Data Solution Specialist.

Barry Moore will serve as the Commercial Head for Australia and New Zealand, based in the GFI Sydney office. Prior to joining GFI FENICS, Moore worked as an FX Option Trader at St George Bank and more recently at Westpac.

Lionel Chan joins the GFI FENICS team in Hong Kong as a Product Specialist and will head up the GFI FENICS Implementation Group in North Asia. Mr. Chan was previously working at BNP Paribas Hong Kong as a Systems Analyst.

John Betts will become Head of GFI FENICS Account Management for Asia, a newly created position based in Singapore. Mr. Betts has been with GFI FENICS in its London office for 3 years. He will be responsible for managing the regional client services team.

Richard Brunt, Global Head of FENICS & Market Data at GFI said: “We continue to invest in the team in Asia, as a direct response to our growing client based throughout the region. What is very pleasing is that the business is able to hire directly from the market, thus bringing in-depth market knowledge to our business” and added, “This experience is critical to meet the needs of our clients as they implement regional deployments of the FENICS Professional solution”.

Brunt continued: “Patrick’s experience in Market Data Systems and Data Licensing reflects the impressive growth in GFI’s Market Data business in the Region to date, and our growing suite of unique data products in the region” added Brunt.

New York, March 21, 2011 – GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc., and GlobalView Software Inc., a leading provider of energy data management solutions, announced today they have entered into a new strategic partnership. This new initiative will offer GFI’s energy data via the MarketView product suite.

“We have partnered with GFI Market Data because they are the leading provider of data in a variety of energy and commodity markets across North America and Europe”, said Eric Fishhaut, Senior Vice President of Technology Strategy of GlobalView. “GlobalView will be able to deliver the content from GFI as part of our award-winning MarketView Solution. With the addition of GFI Market Data content, we will be able to expand our suite of energy data therefore supplying our customers with the most complete and valuable pricing information”, added Mr. Fishhaut.

Philip Winstone, Global Head of Sales at GFI Market Data, stated: “We are very pleased with our partnership with GlobalView. Having our data available through their infrastructure and platforms is an exciting opportunity for us to continue to grow our business through partnership channels.”

Mr. Winstone added: “The data is sourced directly from GFI’s electronic trading platforms for the energy markets, EnergyMatch Europe® and EnergyMatch®, and is therefore comprised of executable bid/offers and executed trade data, rather than indicative or consensus pricing. Coupled with GFI’s strength as a broker in these markets, this makes our data offering one of the most compelling available.”

EnergyMatch® and EnergyMatch Europe® bring together buyers and sellers of derivative and physical commodities contracts in an electronic OTC energy marketplace that provides market participants with multiple clearing options in an open access web based platform.

New York, February 16, 2011 - GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc., and Macrobond Financial AB announced today their partnership to offer GFI sovereign credit default swaps data via Macrobond’s analytics platform. The data will also include historical prices going back to 1997.

Macrobond clients will be able to analyse and map historical and on-going trends and validate trading ideas using GFI Market Data’s sovereign CDS product on the Macrobond application.

Philip Winstone, Global Head of Sales at GFI Market Data said: “GFI Market Data provides a comprehensive, global view of actual executable and executed CDS prices that is sourced directly from GFI CreditMatch™, one of the most widely used and highest rated trading platform for CDS. We are pleased that Macrobond recognises the value of providing this data to its clients over indicative or consensus sources. This distribution and sales partnership is also an exciting extension of our strategy to increase the reach of our high-quality data services.”

Tomas Liljeborg, CEO at Macrobond stated: “We are pleased to be working with the number 1* credit broker globally providing an independent view of CDS market activity. We will distribute detailed global CDS data from GFI Market Data on both sovereigns and corporates with extensive history. The data will be made available in our Macrobond Application, a dynamic charting and analytical platform with global financial and economic data” and added, “The availability of GFI’s CDS data on our platform is complementary to our global data sets and will give our clients a big edge.”

Macrobond’s clients may also elect to subscribe to the full suite of GFI Market Data’s CDS products which includes global corporate, index, tranche, spread and switch pricing in CDS.

Macrobond Financial AB is a Swedish company that provides extensive time series data on a comprehensive range of economic and financial indicators.

*GFI voted No.1 Credit Broker (Credit Magazine Interdealer Rankings 2010) and No.1 Credit Derivatives Broker (Risk Interdealer Rankings 2010).

New York, January 13, 2011 – GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc., and ZE PowerGroup Inc. (ZE), a leading provider of software and strategic consulting in the energy industry, announced today they have entered into a new partnership initiative to offer GFI’s energy data through ZE’s ZEMA™ Suite.

Philip Winstone, Global Head of Sales at GFI Market Data, stated: “Having our data available through the ZEMA infrastructure and platforms is an exciting opportunity for us to continue to grow our business through partnership channels. Our data is derived from GFI’s award-winning electronic trading platforms and I believe the opportunities provided by this partnership with ZE will allow our mutual clients to benefit from both companies’ expertise.”

“ZE has selected to partner with GFI Market Data, as they are a leading provider of data in a variety of energy and commodity markets across North America, Europe and the UK”, said Dr. Zak El-Ramly, CEO and founder of ZE. “ZEMA collects and aggregates data from vendors around the globe to provide clients with unmatched data options. The addition of GFI’s European energy data will increase ZE’s exposure to meet objectives in enterprise data management and ETRM integration for market discovery and business process automation”, added Dr. El-Ramly.

ZE is an experienced software and strategic consulting firm that combines energy industry expertise with advanced software development capability. The company possesses deep industry knowledge and comprehensive operational experience. ZE is the developer of the ZEMATM data management and analysis solution which collects data related to coal, power, gas, crude oil, financial, weather, emissions, hydrology and others and is used as a business process automation and integration tool for small and large scale organizations alike. ZEMA TM is created by experts to meet the specific challenges faced by energy industry participants.