Cantor Doubled Size of Investment Bank, Sees More Growth Ahead

Cantor Fitzgerald LP has doubled the size of its investment bank in the past 18 months and plans to continue boosting headcount.

Brandon and Kyle Lutnick, who took over the leadership of the firm earlier this year, discussed the company’s future in a Bloomberg Television interview Thursday commemorating Sept. 11, 2001, when the majority of Cantor’s New York City workforce — 658 employees — were killed in the World Trade Center attack.

The brothers have run the parent company that controls investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., brokerage BGC Group Inc. and commercial real estate firm Newmark Group Inc. ...