A bankruptcy court is set to consider a plan that would return 93% of MF Global customers' money. That number is an improvement on the 80% that U.S. customers had previously received. Read the full article here.
A bankruptcy court is set to consider a plan that would return 93% of MF Global customers' money. That number is an improvement on the 80% that U.S. customers had previously received. Read the full article here.
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Today marks the beginning of a $6.7 billion payout to the former customers of MF Global Holdings. The process is expected to take several weeks but will return all the money that is owed to the approximately 26,500 former commodities and securities customers of the failed brokerage. "Checks are going in the mail that will make all public customers of MF Global Inc. 100% whole," trustee James Giddens said in a statement. Read Full Article at FIA SmartBrief
NFA regularly reviews the continued effectiveness of its regulatory requirements. Over the past three years, NFA has issued 26 Member Responsibility Actions (MRAs), and 92% of those MRAs were against CPO and/or CTA Members. Most of these matters involved misuse of customer funds (including one CPO that improperly used pool funds because it had insufficient assets to operate as a going concern) and/or misstating net asset values and/or performance information. In light of these actions, NFA is reviewing the current regulatory structure applicable to CPO and CTA operations. In particular, NFA is looking at ways to strengthen the regulatory structure governing CPO operations to provide greater protection for customer funds. Additionally, NFA is exploring ways to ensure that CPOs and...
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