A warning by the SEC in mid-March 2011 regarding repo-to-maturity trades suggests otherwise.  

"We must end the insanity of 'too big to fail'...if the repo markets shuts down, it's game over. And I am not trying to be dramatic"

Freeh accused of taking $ from Iranian terrorists and taking an MF insurance policy away from customers to pay Corzine's legal defense

Fourteen months, one MF Global carcass and $1.6 billion in "vaporized" funds later, does the CFTC still regulate the futures markets by fax?

Why MF Global might well be the template for future looting.

Lies, damn lies and charts.  Why no one in charge dares utter the "F" word (fraud).

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Was the Chapter 11 Petition of MF Global Holdings filed fraudulently?

Your article gives the appearance of having been ghost written by Andrew Levander and/or the JP Morgan legal department.

CFTC article from 1993 warned of dangers of SIPA liquidation for a futures broker. So why Ch 11 for the parent company, which destroys customer rights?

One independent investor from Geneva has foregone the US court system and filed his own criminal complaint against the bank and the collateral manager they hand picked...

If we want to understand what went wrong in the pilfering of customer property, where was Ms. Laurie Ferber during the Senate Agricultural Hearings on MF Global?

This goes for MFG's gold & silver customers too, who otherwise would have been put ahead of creditors.

Will the Senate step up and ask the tough questions, like why is a futures firm being liquidated under securities law and by someone with no experience with futures, whose firm shares MF Global's auditor?

The Chairman of the Federal Reserve System is now writing letters to Congress in response to Bob Ivry articles.  Someone's scared...