Getting ready for a corporate shake-up

Cantor Fitzgerald has been considering a stockbroking acquisition here since 2010 and now, having bought Dolmen Securities, the US firm has ambitious plans to jump start the corporate bond market in Ireland, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

THE shake-up of Irish stockbroking continues apace with the acquisition of Dolmen Securities by the New York-based Cantor Fitzgerald, a firm that will forever be associated in peoples’ minds with 9/11.

Some 658 employees of the firm perished in the terrorist attacks that destroyed the twin towers at the World Trade Center.