Cantor Fitzgerald Hires BGC’s Cecchini for Equity Options Sales

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Cantor Fitzgerald LP hired Peter Cecchini from the firm’s publicly traded arm BGC Partners Inc. as a managing director and head of institutional equity derivatives sales.

Cecchini will assume the role of chief strategist and work with Cantor’s traders to recommend options trades on stocks, indexes and exchange-traded funds, he said in a Jan. 14 e-mail to clients. “I will continue to focus on idea generation in special situations and across asset classes,” Cecchini wrote.