GFI Opens Seoul Office

Leading Inter-Dealer Broker Expands in Asia

LONDON, March 8 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- GFI Group (Nasdaq: GFIG) has opened an office in Seoul. It will operate as GFI Korea Money Brokerage Ltd, broking Korean interest rate swaps and Korean deliverable forwards and non-deliverable forwards.

The office will be headed by Elisha Choi, a senior GFI broker. Mrs Choi moves to Korea from GFI's Singapore office, where she has been in charge of GFI's Korean desks for the past two years. Mrs Choi will report to Jurgen Breuer, GFI's senior managing director, Asia, and will manage GFI's 18 broking, technology and other support staff in Seoul.

"GFI is continually looking to apply its brokering and technology expertise to new opportunities in Asia and we have been focusing on Korea for some time," said Mr Breuer. "GFI is proud to have been granted the brokering license as part of the financial market reforms in Korea and we have moved extremely fast to get all our Korean operations onshore."

Mr Breuer added that GFI was planning to add further products in Korea such as credit derivatives and equity options.

About GFI Group Inc. www.GFIgroup.com

GFI Group Inc. ( http://www.GFIgroup.com ) is a leading inter-dealer broker specializing in over-the-counter derivatives products and related securities. GFI Group Inc. provides brokerage services, market data and analytics software products to institutional clients in markets for a range of credit, financial, equity and commodity instruments.

Headquartered in New York, GFI was founded in 1987 and employs more than 1,400 people with additional offices in London, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, Englewood (NJ), and Sugar Land (TX). GFI provides services and products to over 2,000 institutional clients, including leading investment and commercial banks, corporations, insurance companies and hedge funds.

Its brands include GFI(TM), GFInet(R), CreditMatch(R), Starsupply(R), Amerex(R) and FENICS(R).

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