This article originally appeared in the March edition of Futures Magazine. BY JAMES T. HOLTER In 2011, the exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry continued a recovery that brought it out of its first significant contraction since it was created in 1993. However, the surge was muted strongly mid-year as the European debt crisis, and then the MF

View PDF | View HTML IN REVIEW | February 2010 & the Month Ahead At the end of January and in our year end review, we noted that the macro conditions argued for rising volatility in the major averages with sideways to lower prices throughout February.  This was indeed the case in the first week

This article originally appeared as a Reuters dispatch. (Reuters) – Four months after U.S. futures broker MF Global collapsed, roughly $1.6 billion in customer money is still missing, trading volumes are down, and the futures industry is looking for ways to restore confidence. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is due to hold a roundtable in

This article originally appeared as a Reuters dispatch. By Tom Polansek CHICAGO | Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:20pm EST (Reuters) – With the tax man breathing down his neck, Ohio farmer Tony Rohrs is scrambling to figure out how much money he made last year in an account at MF Global. Thousands of former clients of the

This article originally appeared on FuturesMagazine.com. BY DANIEL P. COLLINS The MF Global Inc. trustee released a preliminary report that pegs the beginning of the shortfall in segregated customer funds to Wednesday, Oct. 26. The report indicates that segregation was violated a day prior than where CME Group pegged it in a timeline presented by Executive Chairman

This article originally appeared as a Reuters dispatch. * Around $700 mln still in dispute with UK entity * Trustee hold $1.4 bln in reserve for potential liability * Says about $3.9 bln now returned to customers By Nick Brown NEW YORK, Feb 10 (Reuters) – The shortfall in funds available to pay back customers

  BY BEN PROTESS AND AZAM AHMED   Earlier this month, in a ninth-floor conference room of the Northern Trust bank in Chicago, an unlikely assembly of futures industry executives, regulators and customers discussed the fallout from MF Global’s collapse. The closed-door meeting illustrated a fundamental shift under way in the futures industry: financial firms, ordinarily loath to accept regulation,

This article originally appeared in NYT’s Dealbook. BY BEN PROTESS Lawmakers are considering new policies aimed at preventing a repeat of the MF Global debacle, in which the futures brokerage firm misused an estimated $1.2 billion in customer money as it collapsed. The Senate Agriculture Committee’s decision to explore potential regulatory changes follows pleas from farmers,

This article originally appeared on Medill Reports. BY ELIZABETH DEXHEIMER The head of the Commodity Customer Coalition, a Chicago-based non-profit that represents former customers of MF Global Inc., expressed confidence in an interview Thursday that the outcome of the group’s latest effort to recover customer funds will be successful. The advocacy group on Monday filed a

This story originally appeared as a Reuters dispatch. By Nick Brown REUTERS – One of the hottest debates raging from Wall Street to the farm belt is destined to stretch into next month, as the trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of broker MF Global Inc collects the final claims by customers who are missing some $1.2