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• MF Global Customers Will Get Money Back: Freeh

  

  Former customers of Jon Corzine's collapsed brokerage MF Global would recover most, and probably all, of their money under the latest projections by the trustee liquidating its bankrupt parent company.

• MF Global customers to get most of their money back - Freeh

  NEW YORK, Feb 3- Former customers of Jon Corzine's collapsed brokerage MF Global would recover most, and probably all, of their money under the latest projections by the trustee liquidating its bankrupt parent company.

• MF Global customer payback deal earns court approval

  *Settlement resolves intercompany claims between MF Global entities. Judge Martin Glenn greenlighted the deal at a hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, about six weeks after trustees for MF's UK and U.S. broker-dealers, as well as its parent, announced the deal to resolve billions of dollars in intercompany claims.

• MF Global accord, once thought unlikely, goes before U.S. judge

  NEW YORK, Jan 30- A year ago, the bankruptcy of MF Global, the collapsed brokerage run by former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, seemed like it would be a long and messy affair involving plenty of courtroom drama around the world.

• Peregrine Financial ex-CEO expects life of fraud to end in jail

  CHICAGO, Jan 30- Russell Wasendorf Sr., who admitted looting more than $100 million from futures broker Peregrine Financial Group, expects to die behind bars even if a judge ignores prosecutors and imposes a lenient sentence at a hearing on Thursday.

• SEC ‘Sheriff’ Mary Jo White Has Worn Bank Hats

  

  Former prosecutor Mary Jo White's nomination to head the SEC was meant to signal that the agency would be getting tough on Wall Street. But she has spent the last decade vigorously defending some of the biggest banks, The New York Times reports.

• UPDATE 1-MF Global judge nixes customer group's bid to depose Corzine

  *Grassroots coalition is not a direct creditor of MF Global- judge. The coalition, a grassroots group led by Chicago- based commodities trader James Koutoulas, bills itself as representing the interests of thousands of traders whose accounts at MF Global were frozen when the company went under.

• UPDATE 2-Jackson to step down as Obama's environmental chief

  *EPA tenure marked by battles with Republicans, industry. Under her leadership, the agency declared for the first time that carbon dioxide was a danger to human health and could be regulated under the Clean Air Act, leading the EPA to develop a new regulatory regime to limit carbon emissions.

• MF Global judge wary of letting customers depose Corzine

  At a hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, Judge Martin Glenn said he doubted whether the Commodity Customer Coalition, a grassroots advocate group for customers hurt by MF Global's 2011 bankruptcy, had legal standing to subpoena and depose Corzine and other former executives.

• UPDATE 2-MF Global report: watchdogs need better grip on finance

  A House of Representatives subcommittee squarely placed blame on MF Global's last chief executive officer, Jon Corzine- a former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs- for creating a culture of unfettered risk. The report also scolded the SEC and CFTC for poorly communicating with each other during MF Global's death spiral.

• UPDATE 1-US House panel suggests SEC-CFTC merger after MF Global

  Nov 15- A U.S. congressional panel suggested on Thursday that the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission merge, saying their failure to share information contributed to the collapse of futures brokerage MF Global.

• UPDATE 2-US Congress panel blames Corzine for MF Global fall

  WASHINGTON, Nov 14- Poor management decisions by MF Global former CEO Jon Corzine triggered the brokerage firm's collapse, while lax protections for customer funds contributed to the loss of an estimated $1.6 billion of customer money, U.S. congressional investigators have determined.

• UPDATE 1-US Congress panel blames Corzine for MF Global fall

  WASHINGTON, Nov 14- Poor management decisions by MF Global's former CEO Jon Corzine triggered the brokerage firm's collapse, while lax protections for customer funds contributed to the loss of an estimated $1.6 billion of customer money, U.S. congressional investigators have determined.

• Congressional probe finds Corzine is to blame for MF Global fall

  WASHINGTON, Nov 14- MF Global's collapse and the loss of an estimated $1.6 billion in customer money was triggered by former CEO Jon Corzine's poor management decisions and lax protections for customer funds, a congressional investigation has determined.

• RPT-Investigators launch new round of MF Global exec interviews

  *New inquiries come after authorities met with Jon Corzine. *One-year anniversary of MF Global collapse approaches.