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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
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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