ＭＦグローバル・ホールディングス、米連邦破産法11条の適用を申請

10月31日（ブルームバーグ）：ニュージャージー州知事やゴールドマン・サックス・グループ共同会長を務めたジョン・コーザイン氏率いる米ブローカー・ディーラーの持ち株会社、ＭＦグローバル・ホールディングスは31日、米連邦破産法11条の適用を申請した。欧州ソブリン債への投資が裏目に出た。

ニューヨーク市マンハッタンの連邦破産裁判所に提出された申請書によると、同社の債務総額は397億ドル（約３兆1000億円）、資産は410億ドル。金融部門のＭＦグローバル・ファイナンスＵＳＡも破産法適用を申請した。同社の債務は最大5000万ドル、資産は最大５億ドル。
http://www.bloomberg.co.jp/apps/news?pid=90920012&sid=as_bYSVoF9LE

以前米系イタリア人を必死に公的に中傷しておられたバチカンの回し者、Jon S. Corzineさんですね、わかります。（爆ｗ
でもコレじゃモロバレです。（爆ｗ

Flowers Recommends Corzine

Corzine was recommended for the position at MF Global by former Goldman Sachs banker Christopher Flowers, the chairman and CEO of JC Flowers & Co. At the same time he took the job, Corzine became an operating partner of Flowers’s buyout firm, which in 2008 bought as much as $300 million of preferred stock in the firm at a conversion price of $12.50 a share.

JC Flowers, which controls one of the eight board seats at MF Global, is also a potential buyer, a person familiar with the matter said.

Diana DeSocio, an MF Global spokeswoman, declined to comment.

MF Global’s futures unit earns interest income from the collateral it holds to back its customers’ trades. That revenue has been cut as the Federal Reserve target interest rate on overnight loans has been between zero and 0.25 percent since late 2008. The firm reported interest income of $113.2 million in the quarter ended in September. When rates were at 5.25 percent in 2007, the company earned $1.77 billion in the quarter ended in March. MF Global also makes money by charging fees for brokering trades at futures and options exchanges.

Increased Sovereign Debt

Since Corzine, 64, arrived at MF Global in March 2010, he increased the firm’s risk and used its own money to trade, including investments in European sovereign debt that have rattled markets.

MF Global, which has a market value of $198 million, owns $6.3 billion of Italian, Spanish, Belgian, Portuguese and Irish debt, the company said in an Oct. 25 presentation.

The company’s eight-member board consists of Corzine, MF Global’s chairman and CEO; Edward Goldberg, managing member of Dix Hills Partners LLC; David Gelber, chairman of Walker Crips Group Plc; Robert Sloan, managing partner of S3 Partners LLC; Martin Glynn, the former CEO of HSBC Bank USA; David Schamis, managing director at JC Flowers; David Bolger, former chief financial officer of Aon Corp.; and Eileen Fusco, vice chairman, Pro Mujer International, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-29/mf-global-s-board-said-to-be-meeting-today-to-discuss-selling-the-company?category=%2Fnews%2Fbonds%2F

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