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