MF Brokerage Trustee Traces Loss Over Five Days of $1. - BusinessWeek

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MF Brokerage Trustee Traces Loss Over Five Days of $1. BusinessWeek On Oct. 31, the brokerage's final day, it had a $310 million margin call tied to its European sovereign debt trade. The trustee didn't disclose the parties making the margin calls. Transactions traced in the investigation cover 47 bank accounts at ... MF Global Faced a $310 Million Margin Call on Futures Broker's Final DayBloomberg A $1.2 billion mysteryKansas City Star MF Global shortfall worsened as bankruptcy nearedCrain's Chicago Business Financial Times all 135 news articles »

OTC Markets Group Reports 2011 Trading Statistics & Highlights - MarketWatch (press release)

OTC Markets Group Reports 2011 Trading Statistics & Highlights MarketWatch (press release) The marketplace saw the value of securities traded by broker-dealers increase by 59% year-over-year, as dollar volume surpassed $229 Billion in 2011. OTCQX®, the intelligent marketplace for the best OTC companies, grew by 98%, from 159 companies on ... and more »

Insight: Two firms flourish in frenzied MF Global aftermath - Reuters

Insight: Two firms flourish in frenzied MF Global aftermath Reuters The fact that MF Global's client base was vast, diverse but typically quite small - from retail speculators to professional energy traders to agriculture hedgers and "introducing brokers" - meant that no single broker could or would take on all those ... and more »

Quieter Trading Tilts Broker Ranks - Wall Street Journal

Quieter Trading Tilts Broker Ranks Wall Street Journal EBS, a unit of broker ICAP PLC, controls more volume than Thomson Reuters in the Swiss and Japanese currencies, where trading has slowed sharply since central-bank interventions in September and October. Meanwhile, Thomson Reuters is stronger in ...

Neovest Joins IPC's Connexus Financial Extranet to Deliver Trading ... - MarketWatch (press release)

Neovest Joins IPC's Connexus Financial Extranet to Deliver Trading ... MarketWatch (press release) Built on an IP/MPLS backbone, the highly scalable and secure Connexus supports a number of industry standard and trading protocols. Neovest, Inc. is an independently operated technology company providing a comprehensive suite of global broker-neutral ... and more »