Prospects of a deal, however, disappeared when more than $700m of customer funds could not be found.

但是， 7亿多美元的顾客资金无法找到，达成协议的希望就会破灭。

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Regulators don't know where the customer funds went, who may have directed the move or how widespread the practice was.

监管层不知道这些客户资金哪里去了、可能是谁做主转移了资金，以及这种做法是否普遍。

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Customer funds have been stored in the top of the integrity of financial institutions, and with the complete separation of the company's funds.

客户的资金被存储在具备顶级诚信度的金融机构中，且与本公司的资金完全分离。

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Floating-rate, rather than fixed-rate, exchanges are going to require the holding of customer funds in national currencies.

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The good news in the MF Global failure is that most of the missing customer funds have been recovered.

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Especially since suspicions are rife that MF has misused segregated customer funds, presumably to keep the resurrection gamble going.

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