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Compensation - Summary of the BGC Holdings and Newmark Holdings LPUs held by BGC Employees (Detail) - LPUs [Member] - shares | Mar. 31, 2020 | Dec. 31, 2019
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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items] |  |
Number of Units, Balance outstanding | 112,577,000 | 102,407,000
Newmark [Member] |  |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items] |  |
Number of Units, Balance outstanding | 14,576,000 | 14,607,000
Regular Units [Member] |  |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items] |  |
Number of Units, Balance outstanding | 78,054,000 |
Regular Units [Member] | Newmark [Member] |  |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items] |  |
Number of Units, Balance outstanding | 10,405,000 |
Preferred Units [Member] |  |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items] |  |
Number of Units, Balance outstanding | 34,523,000 |
Preferred Units [Member] | Newmark [Member] |  |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items] |  |
Number of Units, Balance outstanding | 4,171,000 |

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