... 2012 letter obtained by Bloomberg News. * Feb. 6, 2012: word surfaced that MF Global faced a $310 million margin call on its final day that exceeded its market value. Calls for payments tied to bets MF Global made on European sovereign debt increased Oct. 24 and continued through Oct. 31, the day the futures broker filed for bankruptcy protection, according to a report from James Giddens, the trustee overseeing the brokerage’s liquidation. * December 24, 2014: a Federal court in New York ordered MF Global Holdings to pay $1.212 billion in restitution or such amount as necessary to ensure that claims of customers of its subsidiary, MF Global Inc. (MFGI), are paid in full. The court also imposed a $100 million civil monetary penalty on MFGH, to be paid after claims of customers and certain other creditors entitled to priority under bankruptcy law have been fully paid. MF Global in Depth Investigation At the end of October of 2011, Securities Investor Protection Corp. (SIPC) said the broker-dealer part of MF Global may not be able to meet its obligations to its customers. SIPC began a legal proceeding against MF Global that would be transferred to U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan because MF Global consented to SIPC's application to liquidate it. CME Group, the exchange where MF Global did business until Oct, 31, 2011, said it was investigating missing money, joining federal regulators in doing so. Using special permission from regulators, CME was planning to take the unusual...
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