This article originally appeared in Futures Magazine. BY DANIEL P. COLLINS The MF Global bankruptcy not only gave a black eye to the futures industry, it shattered the claim that futures customers have never lost money due to the failure of a broker — a claim that withstood the Lehman Brothers failure — which distinguished it in American financial circles.

This article originally appeared in Futures Magazine. BY DANIEL P. COLLINS An interesting discourse went on at last week’s Senate Agriculture Committee hearings on recent failures to protect customer funds in the futures industry between the two MF Global trustees. The hearings were titled, “Examining the Futures Markets: Responding to the Failures of MF Global and Peregrine Financial

This article originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal. By Jamila Trindle WASHINGTON–CME Group Inc. (CME), operator of the world’s largest futures exchange, Wednesday defended the current regulatory system for the futures industry, which has been criticized after alleged fraud at Peregrine Financial Group Inc. left futures customers short of funds for the second time in