New York, January 3, 2012 – New York’s Hap Capital has licensed FENICS Professional™ Pricing and Analytics Tools from GFI Group, Inc. (NYSE: GFIG) for use on Hap Capital’s FX Options Desk in New York City.

Andrew Dexter, Head of FX Options at Hap Capital said, “After evaluating numerous systems for FX Options that cover pricing, risk management, and transaction processing, we decided that GFI FENICSSM was clearly the best choice. Their platform, FENICS Professional, provides us with the accuracy, ease of use and scalability we require to support and grow our business”, and added, ” FENICS’ customer support team provides fantastic training and ongoing support to help us get the most out of the platform and be more efficient.”.

“We are delighted to welcome HAP Capital as a client and to be able to provide them with the tools they need to continue developing their FX options business. Our business has grown significantly during the last few years as we have added new clients from every market segment” said Richard Brunt, Global Head of FENICS & Market Data Services at GFI.

HAP Capital acts as a liquidity and efficiency provider to the marketplace and differentiates itself from most other firms in the space in its internally-developed quantitative approach to its trading strategy and business model.

FENICS Professional is a powerful front, middle and back office platform for pricing, analyzing, and managing FX options. An end-to-end solution, it provides all the necessary tools, math models and independent market data for fast, accurate price discovery and revaluation of vanilla options and exotic multi-leg, multi-currency strategies.

The platform is licensed to over 350 clients worldwide, financial institutions and corporations, with thousands of users benefiting from its solutions.

About GFI Group Inc.

GFI Group Inc. (NYSE: “GFIG”) is a leading provider of wholesale brokerage services, clearing services, electronic execution and trading support products for global financial markets.
GFI Group Inc. provides brokerage services, market data, trading platform and analytics software products to institutional clients in markets for a range of fixed income, financial, equity and commodity instruments.

Fenics Software Limited is a subsidiary of GFI Group Inc.

Headquartered in New York, GFI was founded in 1987 and employs more than 2,200 people with additional offices in London, Paris, Nyon, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, Cape Town, Santiago, Bogota, Dubai, Dublin, Tel Aviv, Calgary, Los Angeles and Sugar Land (TX). GFI Group Inc. provides services and products to over 2,600 institutional clients, including leading investment and commercial banks, corporations, insurance companies and hedge funds. Its brands include GFI(SM), GFInet®, CreditMatch®, GFI ForexMatch®, EnergyMatch®, FENICS®, Starsupply®, Amerex®, Trayport® and Kyte®.

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Patricia Gutierrez
Vice President – Public Relations
GFI Group Inc.
55 Water Street, 28th Floor
New York, NY 10041
Tel: (212) 968 2964
Mob: (646) 717 4379
patricia.gutierrez@gfigroup.com