This article originally appeared in the January 12, 2012 edition of the Wall Street Journal. Stanley Haar says he knew how much money MF Global Holdings Ltd. owed him after about five minutes reviewing old account statements. But completing a claim form, he said, took more than two days. “That’s nuts,” said Mr. Haar, a

This article originally appeard on Forbes.com. Emily Lambert, Forbes Staff Chicago and New York futures traders have had a prickly relationship over the years. Despite mergers that put the cities’ futures exchanges under the same corporate roof, it’s not hard to get a trader or broker in one city to privately criticize the ethics and

Article originally appeared on CNNMoney.com on December 22, 2011. By James O’Toole MF Global customer Dean Tofteland raises corn, soybeans and pigs on his farm in Minnesota. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Luverne, Minnesota, is a long way from the Manhattan offices of MF Global, but the effects of the firm’s bankruptcy are being felt acutely

This article originally appeared in the December 21, 2011 edition of the Delta Farm Press. Congressional hearings, bankruptcy proceedings and unanswered questions David Bennett In late November, the MF Global collapse was a month old, farmers and ranchers had assets frozen in bankruptcy court and investigators had begun efforts to locate some $1.2 billion in

This article originally appeared as a December 21, 2011 Reuters dispatch. (Reuters) – The bankruptcy liquidation trustee for MF Global Inc is working to recover $700 million (446 million pounds) of client funds held by the broker’s UK affiliate for U.S. customers that were trading in overseas markets, the trustee’s spokesman said on Tuesday. James

 This article originally appeared in the December 17, 2011 edition of Barron’s. By ERIN E. ARVEDLUND Editors Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that CME owns the Chicago Board Options Exchange. That exchange is a unit of CBOE Holdings. It’s one thing for $1.2 billion to vanish into thin air through a series

Story originally appeared in the December 2, 2011 edition of Fortune.com. By Leah McGrath Goodman, contributor James Koutoulas walked into one of the worst bankruptcies in U.S. history with almost zero legal experience. “When I got up the first day in bankruptcy court and saw the look on the judge’s face, I couldn’t blame him,”

Article originally appeared in the November 28, 2011 edition of the Delta Farm Press. David Bennett Fallout over the late-October bankruptcy of MF Global Holdings Ltd. – the eighth largest in U.S. history — has spawned FBI and Justice Department investigations and left many wondering how, in the wake of supposed Wall Street reforms, government

Story originally appeared in the November 23, 2011 edition of the Chicago Sun-Times. By David Roeder The trustee searching for missing customer money in the bankruptcy of MF Global will investigate how well the Chicago futures markets monitored the brokerage before its collapse, a spokesman said Wednesday. Kent Jarrell, a spokesman for Trustee James Giddens,

Article originally appeared on MarketWatch.com on November 25, 2011. By Jamila Trindle –Coalition of MF Global customers lobbies Washington to help them get money back –Futures industry considers an insurance fund –Regulators to take lawmaker questions in hearings on Dec. 5 and Dec. 15 (Updates to add CFTC not returning request for comment in paragraph