BROKING - Cantor's controversial Asia push

In the cutthroat world of interdealer brokers—the middlemen between FX and derivatives trades—courting talented employees from rival firms is an established way of getting business. And as a result, injunctions and lawsuits are common. But since the beginning of the year, BGC Partners, the re-branded voice-broking arm of Cantor Fitzgerald, has started seizing employees from its rivals in a scale never experienced before in the Asia-Pacific region. Richard Morrow reports.