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By Ginger Szala |
April 3, 2013
The annual Futures Industry Association conference in Boca Raton, Fla. is a good time to take the industry’s temperature. Where the 2012 meeting was somber, 2013 seemed upbeat.
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By Ginger Szala |
April 1, 2013
April editor's note from Ginger Szala
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By Steve Zwick |
April 1, 2013
With debates raging about high-frequency trading, new regulations and a transaction tax, there is plenty for traders to keep an eye on.
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By Michael McFarlin |
February 21, 2013
Former MF Global CEO Jon Corzine faces an uphill battle if he ever wants to trade in the futures market again. At its quarterly meeting of board directors, the National Futures Association (NFA) discussed imposing on him a lifetime ban on Corzine on trading in the futures markets.
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By Futures Staff |
February 1, 2013
In a year dominated by crises — both natural and political — squeezing our annual list of largest influencers down to 20 was difficult. One thing this year highlighted was that money and power trump all as we learned that — at least in the banking world — there are...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
November 1, 2012
One year later and former MF Global customers still don’t have all their money. So, where is it?
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By Michael McFarlin |
October 23, 2012
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission unanimously approved new customer protection rules yesterday in response to MF Global’s demise one year ago and the revelation of fraud PFGBest earlier this year.
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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 Daniel P. Collins |
August 16, 2012
The MF Global bankruptcy didn't just give the futures industry a black eye, it shattered the claim that futures customers have never lost money due to broker failure.
