Last week, CFTC and MF Global Inc. agreed to a settlement whereby MF Global Inc. would pay restitution to its former commodity customers to bring them to a 100% return of their accounts. This restitution, which requires judicial approval, would likely involve the trustee sending out checks bringing both 4d domestic futures customers and 30.7 foreign futures customers to 100% toward the end of 2013.
The trustee indicated in a consent order filed on the MF Global Inc. docket that the trustee will wait to receive a payment from the MF Global UK affiliate before requesting court authority to make the 100% restitution payments. The trustee expects to receive that payment from the affiliate around September 10, 2013, and the trustee would then file the request within five days of receiving the payment. The processes of achieving court approval and mailing checks may each then take several months, bringing customer receipt of restitution checks to roughly the end of 2013.
Neal R. Stevens
Schuyler, Roche & Crisham, P.C.
nstevens@SRCattorneys.com
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