This article originally appeared in the November 15, 2013 edition of the Financial Times. Please view the original here. By Gregory Meyer in New York and Neil Munshi in Chicago Government-authorised insurance for customers of collapsed futures brokers would take half a century to become fully funded, requiring a taxpayer backstop in the interim,
This article originally appeared on Reuters on October 30, 2013. To view the original, click here. By Christine Stebbins (Reuters) – Two years ago on Halloween thousands of U.S. grain farmers got the scare of their lives when broker MF Global collapsed and more than a billion dollars of their money went missing. MF Global
John Roe and James Koutoulas handicap the sucess of efforts to prosecute Jon Corzine with Prime Interest’s Bob English. The interview begins around the 2:19 hash mark.
This article originally appeared on June 28, 2013 on WSJ’s MoneyBeat. To view the original, click here. By Dan Strumpf and Jerry A. DiColo The civil charges levied Thursday againstJon Corzine for his alleged role in the collapse MF Global Holdings Inc. were a welcome development for many former customers of the firm. But Lonnie Becker, a
This article originally appeared on Reuters on June 17, 2013. To view the original, click here. By Tom Polansek and Ann Saphir CHICAGO/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A North Carolina hedge fund manager used a personal post-office box and forged bank statements to hide his theft of about $6 million over a seven-year period, U.S. regulators
This article originally appeared in the June 25, 2013 Financial Times. To read the full article, please click here. By Tracy Alloway in New York and Neil Munshi in Chicago The US regulator charged with overseeing MF Global is planning to file a civil suit against Jon Corzine, the former chief executive of the collapsed brokerage. The Commodity
John Roe on RT’s Prime Interest on MF Global Holding’s Trustee Louis Freeh’s request for a jury trial in his lawsuit against former MF Global CEO Jon Corzine. Mr. Roe’s interview begins around the 3:00 hash mark.
This article originally appeared in the April 22, 2013 edition of Crain’s Chicago. To view the original, click here. By Lynne Marek When people ask Michael Mason, a trader in the lumber pit of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, why he’s wearing a flimsy temporary trading badge, he says it’s a reminder that MF Global Inc.
This article originally appeared in the April 5, 2013 edition of Financial Times. To view the original, click here. By Tom Braithwaite in New York and Neil Munshi in Chicago A judge approved the liquidation plan of MF Global, cementing the eighth-largest US bankruptcy and paving the way for the collapsed brokerage’s assets to be
John L. Roe and James Koutoulas appear with Crains Chicago’s Lynne Marek to discuss the future of the NFA.