The bankrupt brokerage firm MF Global still can’t account for some $1.2 billion in customer funds, but an ongoing investigation imagines that a “significant amount” of the money “vaporized” during the company’s crashing and burning, The Wall Street Journal reports. Although it’s probably not coming back, speculation persists about where exactly the money ended up, with a few hundred millions apparently going (against securities rules) to JPMorgan Chase, and a lot potentially lost on bad investment bets on European debt.
Following ex-CEO Jon Corzine’s time in the congressional hot seat, lawmakers will look into the role of ratings companies in the massive failure beginning February 2. A week before, the firm filed the eighth-biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history, CFO Henri Steenkamp told Standard & Poor’s via e-mail, “MF Global is in its strongest position ever.”
