MF Global

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By Tom Polansek CHICAGO, May 22 (Reuters) - CME Group Inc will never influence the price of its memberships, Executive Chairman Terry Duffy said on Wednesday after seats formerly owned by bankrupt broker MF Global Holdings Ltd were sold cheaply....

By Sarah N. Lynch and Douwe Miedema WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. derivatives regulator made a questionable call when he chose to distance himself from probing the demise of futures broker MF Global, the agency's internal...

By Tom Polansek CHICAGO, May 20 (Reuters) - The trustee liquidating MF Global has sold a collection of the bankrupt broker's CME Group memberships for amounts below recent selling prices, according to a list of transactions published by the exchange on...

Would you borrow money to pay off your mortgage and instead risk it in the market? That is in essence what Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz would like to do by floating $255 million of pension obligation bonds to fill the official hole in the...

The United States Cattlemen's Association (USCA) concluded its first fly-in of 2013 to Washington, D.C. recently. Members representing Virginia, Montana, North Dakota, Maryland, Kansas and Indiana made the trip to D.C. for the week's schedule of meetings....

The recent scandals at MF Global and Peregrine Financial have resonated deeply in Chicago, where the futures industry matured into a global financial juggernaut. The early years of the Chicago Board of Trade are littered with stories of the corpses of...

The irony that the head of corporate responsibility for a Big Four accounting firm works out of the original Playboy mansion is not lost on Shannon Schuyler.    Before settling in to talk about her role as corporate responsibility leader and senior...

Washington, DC - Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, issued the following statement on the settlement deal approved by a bankruptcy court judge that paves the way for customers of the...

By Sarah N. Lynch and Douwe Miedema WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) - A senior U.S. lawmaker on Thursday ordered the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to hand over all personal emails that he sent for business purposes, as part of a new probe...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. lawmaker on Thursday ordered the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to hand over all personal emails that he sent for business purposes, as part of a new probe into whether the derivatives regulator was...

It's about time. Five years have passed since the financial crisis struck. And only now do Wall Street executives seem to be gaining awareness that many potential clients have lost trust in them and the stock market, and have been voting with their...