Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Second MF Global Unveiled As Canadian Regulator Accuses Barret Capital Of Commingling Client Funds

When we learned of the MF Global client theft scandal, in the aftermath of its sudden bankruptcy filing, the one thing we predicted would happen (in addition to Jon Corzine never going to prison) was that many more brokers, banks and broadly financial intermediaries would be discovered having dipped in client accounts, or otherwise "commingled" capital in direct violation of the first rule of banking. Sure enough, a little over two months since, the second notable company to have been alleged to have abused client capital for own purposes has emerged. And it comes to us courtesy of sleeping Canada whose "banks are all fine." As the Winnipeg Free Press reports

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