Other refinements include a MF Assist function that magnifies a portion of the image while framing to simplify fine focus adjustments, as well as a Peaking function that highlights sharply-focused areas of the image on screen.
He even suggested to the vice-Chairman of the CME that he could argue in front of the court that the judge grant a lien to CME on the MF Global holding company assets if the exchange were to put up a temporary fund to make MF customers whole.
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Dooley (45) was a commodities trader for MF Global in February 2008 when he placed a wrong-way trade on wheat.
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Ironically, a day after MF Global filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy its President and COO, Russ Wasendorf, Jr.
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On Monday, the Commodity Customer Coalition filed court papers objecting to a lien on MF Global assets secured by J.
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Strictly from a news perspective, MF Global has real legs because, importantly, the collapse occurred at a uniquely sensitive moment.
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The trustee in the MF Global case filed a 174-page report outlining his investigation into the failure of MF Global.
"It is going to put a huge spotlight on deficit reduction, " said Anne Mathias, a Washington analyst for MF Global.
It is too soon for a definitive autopsy on MF, but excessive leverage and proprietary bets were clearly to blame.
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The next day MF disclosed a quarterly loss.
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"MF has suffered a series of market, credit and liquidity events which have challenged management and earnings, " Fitch said.
Late last week Corzine resigned from his post at MF Global following a week long marathon of bankruptcy-related problems.
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Then there is the persistent urban myth that MF Global had a cloaking device that misfired and destroyed the firm.
It was this sort of collateral spiral that felled MF Global, a bust American broker, in its ill-fated bet on euro-area government bonds.
Mr. Corzine was given free rein to run MF Global like a private investment fund, and the board did not intervene to protect investors.
And he rebuffed an assertion that he knew about customer money that might have been transferred to a European affiliate just before MF Global collapsed.
No one has appointed an Anton Valukas-style bankruptcy examiner or a Michael Missal to give MF Global the Lehman or the New Century treatment.
Because its collapse is directly tied to the European economic crisis, MF Global is a direct reminder to already jittery investors that foreign entanglements expose all of us to unforeseeable, often instantaneous risk.
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As a broker-dealer, MF Global also added liquidity to the system, adding another layer of systemic risk: on Monday, MF Global traders were barred from the CME Trading floor, substantially limiting liquidity in futures markets.
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Treating the trades as sales allowed MF Global to book a profit immediately in its U.S. unit.
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His findings echo those of reports issued last year by another MF Global trustee and a U.S. House panel.
McDaniel and Peterson to testify in a new round of hearings on MF Global's demise, people familiar with the matter say.
There's a grim precedent: one of India's greatest painters, MF Husain, was literally hounded into exile for drawing a Hindu goddess naked.
In the mean time, MF Global will pay a dividend of 6% per year in cash or common shares on the preferred securities.
He sounds like a pretty normal guy trying to make a living who feels as if MF and Jon Corzine have totally screwed him over.
Most nonbanks, such as insurance companies and hedge funds, have perfectly adequate bankruptcy processes already (the recent MF Global bankruptcy is a case in point).
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The defenders of the Volcker rule point out that trading in foreign sovereign bonds played a central role in bringing down MF Global Holdings Ltd.
Top members of a U.S. Senate committee plan to introduce a resolution urging that a plan to propose bonuses for MF Global executives at the firm when it collapsed be dropped.
"Anyone who violates the law, and particularly anyone at MF Global who used a billion bucks of customer cash that should have been protected, should be punished appropriately, " Chilton said in a statement.
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