Emini Podcast / The Daily Futures 11/07/11
November 7, 2011 at 4:23 PM (QQQQ)(DIA)(SPY)(GLD)(SLV)
Lehmans first stock certificate auctioned today for 30,000 Euros.
Bank of New York Mellon Corp., the world’s largest custody bank, is in early stage talks with federal prosecutors to settle accusations the bank overcharged customers for foreign-exchange trading, according to a person briefed on the discussions.
The U.S. Attorney in Manhattan filed suit against New York- based BNY Mellon on Oct. 4, the same day the bank was sued by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who said the bank defrauded public pension funds of $2 billion over 10 years. Attorneys general in Virginia and Florida have filed similar lawsuits, as have pension funds in Los Angeles and other California counties.
The CFTC is trying to track down $593 million in missing client funds at MF Global after the New York-based brokerage sought bankruptcy protection on Oct. 31.
Customers of MF Global Holdings Inc. whose money is still trapped at the futures broker almost a week after filing for bankruptcy protection say the safeguards meant to protect them failed as exchanges and regulators work to move client positions.
CME Group Inc., the world’s largest futures exchange that’s also responsible for auditing its clearing members such as MF Global under its authority as a self-regulating organization, said on Nov. 4 it was in the process of transferring about 15,000 positions. Under a court order in the bankruptcy case, no funds or collateral not backing futures positions can be transferred to another futures broker.
“It shows a terrible weakness in the exchanges, the industry and the regulators,” said Elaine Knuth, an MF Global customer since 2005 who trades agricultural commodities for her own account. Her positions total between $100,000 and $500,000, she said. “The whole system broke down.”
MF Global customers may have to wait years to get their money back if the futures broker is sued, Frederick Grede, the liquidation trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of futures brokerage Sentinel Management Group Inc. said Nov. 2. A former chief executive officer of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange, he has sought to recover about $600 million of customer money from Sentinel, the futures broker that filed for bankruptcy in 2007. “I still have extensive litigation with regard to the customers” of Sentinel, he said. “It’s been four years.”
Lehmans first stock certificate auctioned today for 30,000 Euros. (ironic don't you think?)
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