{"id":40441,"date":"2014-02-05T05:04:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T10:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=40441"},"modified":"2014-02-05T05:04:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T10:04:53","slug":"wall-street-gives-back-btig-upcoming-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2014\/wall-street-gives-back-btig-upcoming-event.html","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Gives Back – BTIG Upcoming Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

BTIG LLC, a global financial services firm specializing in institutional trading and related brokerage services, will host its 12th<\/sup>\u00a0Commissions for Charity Day on Tuesday, May 13, 2014.<\/p>\n

The annual BTIG Commissions for Charity Day is a celebrity-filled event. During the day celebrity participants join BTIG traders in an effort to raise money for a variety of charities.<\/p>\n

BTIG pioneered its first Commissions for Charity Day in 2003 raising funds for three charities.\u00a0Over the past eleven years, BTIG\u2019s Commissions for Charity Day has\u00a0grown into an international event, with BTIG US, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia offices participating. More than\u00a0$28 million in commission profits have been donated to hundreds of charitable organizations around the world since the inception of the event.<\/p>\n

Last year, BTIG donated over $4 million to more than 170 nonprofit organizations. While the charities supported are nominated by BTIG clients, the firm encourages clients to select child-focused charities. This year\u2019s nominees include, among many others:<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Project<\/a>\u00a0Sunshine\u00a0–<\/b>\u00a0http:\/\/www.projectsunshine.org\/<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0St. Mary\u2019s Healthcare System for Children\u00a0–<\/b>\u00a0http:\/\/stmaryskids.org\/<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The First Tee of San Francisco\u00a0–<\/b>\u00a0http:\/\/www.thefirstteesanfrancisco.org<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The<\/a>\u00a0Jackie Robinson Foundation\u00a0–<\/b>\u00a0http:\/\/www.jackierobinson.org\/<\/a>; and<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Year Up\u00a0–<\/b>\u00a0http:\/\/www.yearup.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Celebrities that have participated in past Commissions for Charity Day events include: Michael J. Fox, Michael Strahan, Matt Dillon, Joe Girardi, Mariano Rivera, Mark Teixeira, Tom Coughlin, Rex Ryan and Eli Manning in New York City; Ronnie Lott, Joe Morgan, Marshawn Lynch and Vida Blue in San Francisco; Marcus Allen and Tony Gonzalez in Los Angeles; and Mike Gatting OBE, Chris Tarrant OBE, Brian Conley, Aled Jones MBE and Sinitta in London.<\/p>\n

\u201cBTIG\u2019s Commissions for Charity Day provides our clients and employees with a unique opportunity to work in collaboration with celebrity guests to affect meaningful change,\u201d said Steven Starker, Co–<\/b>Founder of BTIG. \u201cThe dedicated work of the charities that BTIG\u2019s Commissions for Charity Day supports and of all those involved in Charity Day, re-inspires us with renewed enthusiasm for the event every year.\u201d<\/p>\n

About BTIG<\/p>\n

BTIG, LLC is a global financial services company offering products and services across Equity Trading, Global Portfolio and ETF Trading, Derivatives, Fixed Income, Futures & Commodities, Foreign Exchange, Convertible\/Preferred Securities, Corporate Access, Equity Research, Capital Markets, Prime Brokerage, Electronic Trading and Outsource Trading. With U.S. offices located in New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Red Bank, Purchase and Orinda, and overseas affiliates located in London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney, BTIG, including through its affiliates, employs more than 400 professionals worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BTIG LLC, a global financial services firm specializing in institutional trading and related brokerage services, will host its 12th\u00a0Commissions for Charity Day on Tuesday, May 13, 2014. The annual BTIG Commissions for Charity Day is a celebrity-filled event. During the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16046],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","category-user-contributed-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40442,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40441\/revisions\/40442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}