MF Global

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...

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....

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...

In case anyone missed the news — and judging by the fact that there aren't angry mobs storming Washington, everyone missed the news — Congress recently absolved Jon Corzine of being criminally responsible for actions that "wiped out...

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 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...

Federal regulators recently roiled America's farmers with the release of new rules for financial instruments. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, one of the agencies charged with implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, officially...

If it's a bad idea to play with matches, it's an even worse idea to play with a blowtorch in a fireworks factory. And yet that's just what farmers and ranchers do every time they price their cattle, corn, cotton and other commodities in global markets...

I was saddened to see the small article inside the Maryland Business section of The Sun sounding the death knell for the investor lawsuit related to the implosion of MF Global and implying the futility of any further pursuit of Jon Corzine, the company'...

LUVERNE, Minn. -- Dean Tofteland sweeps grain off of the elevator scale at his farmstead south of Luverne, Minn., and says it reminds him of the MF Global Holdings Ltd. case. "They haven't really cleaned this mess up," Tofteland says. Tofteland is one...

Can you imagine having your bank account frozen for two months? Customers of Peregrine Financial Group Inc. have been left in such a lurch since the futures brokerage collapsed in July after a review of its segregated customer accounts revealed...