SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Schedule of financial information for the company's reportable segments

	For the Year Ended December 31, 2012
	Americas Brokerage		EMEA Brokerage		Asia Brokerage		Clearing and Backed Trading			All Other			Total
Total revenues	$	276,350	$	338,504	$	71,927	$	159,877		$	77,929		$	924,587
Revenues, net of interest and transaction-based expenses	262,560		328,722		71,813		44,597			79,353			787,045
Income (loss) before income taxes	69,648		83,334		15,075		6,688			(176,002		)	(1,257		)

	For the Year Ended December 31, 2011
	Americas Brokerage		EMEA Brokerage		Asia Brokerage		Clearing and Backed Trading			All Other			Total
Total revenues	$	313,483	$	386,012	$	82,903	$	164,882		$	68,193		$	1,015,473
Revenues, net of interest and transaction-based expenses	299,590		374,802		82,839		54,104			69,436			880,771
Income (loss) before income taxes	81,308		88,122		15,533		9,196			(194,077		)	82

	For the Year Ended December 31, 2010
	Americas Brokerage		EMEA Brokerage		Asia Brokerage		Clearing and Backed Trading			All Other			Total
Total revenues	$	294,910	$	379,033	$	74,945	$	53,129		$	60,585		$	862,602
Revenues, net of interest and transaction-based expenses	278,553		367,494		74,875		12,140			61,982			795,044
Income (loss) before income taxes	66,399		115,037		15,814		(3,041		)	(162,406		)	31,803

Schedule of geographic information regarding revenues and long-lived assets

	For the year ended December 31,
	2012		2011		2010
Revenues:
United States	$	271,038	$	303,508	$	290,053
United Kingdom	456,801		492,204		398,020
Other	196,748		219,761		174,529
Total	$	924,587	$	1,015,473	$	862,602

	For the year ended December 31,
	2012		2011		2010
Revenues, net of interest and transaction-based expenses:
United States	$	262,962	$	295,212	$	278,686
United Kingdom	337,440		376,809		348,895
Other	186,643		208,750		167,463
Total	$	787,045	$	880,771	$	795,044

	As of December 31,
	2012		2011
Long-lived Assets, as defined:
United States	$	47,675	$	50,993
United Kingdom	10,536		12,018
Other	5,239		5,846
Total	$	63,450	$	68,857

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of information concerning material long-lived assets (excluding financial instruments, customer relationships with financial institutions, mortgage and other servicing rights, deferred policy acquisition costs, and deferred taxes assets) located in identified geographic areas and/or the amount of revenue from external customers attributed to that country from which revenue is material. An entity may also provide subtotals of geographic information about groups of countries.

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Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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