Cantor Fitzgerald is a leading global financial services firm, serving clients from over 30 offices around the world. Founded in 1945 as a securities brokerage and investment bank, the firm pioneered computer-based bond trading, built one of the broadest distribution networks in the industry and became the market's premier dealer of government securities. The company provides capital raising, acquisition and disposition advisory, balance sheet restructuring, and merchant banking services. Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. was founded in 1945 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Birmingham, Alabama.