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By Press Release |
January 31, 2013
Following an independent review of the organization's audits of the now defunct Peregrine Financial Group, the NFA will make changes to its auditing process.
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By Alanna Byrne |
October 11, 2012
A group of Peregrine Financial Group (PFG) forex and metals account holders are asking a judge to order Trustee Ira Bodenstein to return these accounts to customers, arguing that they should not be considered assets of the estate.
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By Steve Zwick |
October 1, 2012
With the recent fraud at PFGBest essentially torpedoing more than a century of trust, is a major overhaul of retail brokering the only solution?
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By Alanna Byrne |
September 21, 2012
Peregrine Financial Group customers will receive their first payout — totaling roughly $123 million — after a federal bankruptcy judge Thursday approved a distribution plan from trustee Ira Bodenstein.
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By Alanna Byrne |
September 13, 2012
In a Sept. 9 court filing, the agency asked the court to delay a distribution of funds to Peregrine Financial Group customers until trustee Ira Bodenstein has performed “reasonable due diligence to ensure that the data underlying the distribution are reliable.”
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By Andrew Harris, Bloomberg |
September 12, 2012
Peregrine Financial Group Inc.’s liquidating trustee can consider bulk offers for futures client accounts from other commodities firms, a U.S. bankruptcy judge said.
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By Linda Sandler, Bloomberg |
September 10, 2012
The Peregrine Financial Group Inc. trustee didn’t complete necessary tests before announcing a plan to distribute $123 million to customers of the defunct futures brokerage, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said.
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By Daniel P. Collins |
August 30, 2012
Days after receiving a letter from a former PFG customer complaining about the lack of progress in getting money back to former PFG customers, the PFG trustee asks judge to give raise to PFG general counsel.
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By Daniel P. Collins |
August 20, 2012
CTA Bouchard Capital LLC will be shutting its doors later this week because nearly 80% of the client and proprietary money it was trading, $3.4 million of $4.4 million, is tied up in the PFGBest fraud.
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By Daniel P. Collins |
July 16, 2012
Russ Wasendorf Sr. was not some obscure head of a midsized future commission merchant but a seriously engaged member of the futures world.