MF Global Holdings Ltd

The gold market has always been partial to "carry trades". But in the post 2008 world the nature of the carry-trade has...

Jon Corzine, the former head of MF Global, and two lieutenants were sued over the failure of the brokerage by a bankruptcy...

ROUND-UP FT markets round-up: "A big day for central bank announcements saw equity markets take divergent paths and the yen...

Jon Corzine helped bring down MF Global with a dangerous trading strategy and inadequate risk controls, according to the...

MF Global has reached an agreement with JPMorgan Chase that will result in more than $500m being returned to the bankrupt...

The Federal Reserve is appealing for smaller and regional brokerages to help it implement monetary policy, in a move that...

Unsecured creditors of MF Global UK may receive up to 40 per cent of their claims, double previous expectations, the...

Elsewhere on Friday, - Relax: banks’ risk measurements are rarely off by much more than a factor of ten. - OCC leadership...

The head of Egan-Jones Ratings agency, a small rival of the big three credit rating agencies, has been banned from issuing...

Cast your mind back to the Valukas report into the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Back to Repo 105, and the immortal lines,...

MF Global’s UK administrator may be able to double payouts to customers and make its first payments to creditors following a...

The trustees fighting over the estate of MF Global have reached a settlement over its assets, in a move that paves the way...

Jefferies, the US investment bank that last month agreed to be bought by Leucadia National, has reported fourth-quarter...

MF Global UK’s administrator said on Thursday the total amount of house assets it has recovered had doubled to £1bn in the...

Cantor Fitzgerald has agreed to pay a $700,000 penalty and improve its internal controls to settle charges it breached a...

The UK’s new chief regulator has called for a “robust debate” to help determine new rules protecting customers’ assets as it...

Good morning New York FT ALPHAVILLE The good (political) times are over for risk assets: Morgan Stanley cross-asset...

Hat-tip to the FT's Tracy Alloway Some interesting detail from the House Financial Services Committee's report into the...

MF Global misled regulators over the size of its eurozone bond bets, a powerful US congressional committee has claimed in a...

ROUND-UP Conflict in Gaza unnerved the stock market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 185 points to close at 12,570...

A powerful US congressional committee has blamed Jon Corzine, former chief executive of MF Global, for the futures broker’s...

On Monday, Leucadia National said it would buy Jefferies, the last independent broker-dealer of any significant size on Wall...

Leucadia National, the “Baby Berkshire,” is playing the big daddy now. The conglomerate is adding the independent investment...

MF Global has edged out Lehman Brothers as the most actively traded bankruptcy claim, the first time since 2008 that the...

A high-stakes game of “my model is better than yours” is under way on Wall Street. On the face of it, the universal banks...

Nikolai Battoo, whom the authorities said claimed to manage $1.5bn across “an amorphous syndicate of far flung funds,...

The UK’s City watchdog has announced “the most radical changes in 20 years” to the rules for protecting client assets in an...

The trustee charged with recouping money for clients of MF Global has chosen to sue former executives of the failed broker,...

Investors are building a picture of how Wall Street banks treat their assets in Europe based on five quarters of data...

The hopes of out-of-pocket MF Global customers have been raised after a bankruptcy trustee said clients of the failed...

The Bank of England would be given broad new powers to stabilise or wind up clearing houses and large investment managers...

China's manufacturing growth foundered slightly in July, confounding expectations for a recovery as the government has...

Profits at CME Group almost halved in the second quarter compared with last year as the US’s biggest futures exchange...

Futures brokers could be stripped of the right to hold customer funds beyond the amount needed to back trading positions...

For the gatekeepers to the $40tn US futures market, it has not been a good week. Mortified futures brokers watched yet...

While financial market regulators were still dealing with the failure of futures broker MF Global another has occurred with...

A top US regulator said the oversight regime had failed in its duty to protect the customers of Peregrine Financial Group,...