With all the changes that are taking place in derivatives trading and processing, the easiest way for firms to streamline their clearing operations is to think twice about the products they’re trading, says James Koutoulas, CEO of Typhon Capital Management.
Author: John Roe
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Typhon Capital’s CEO @jameskoutoulas talks to @UChicago students about trading, entrepreneurship, and fighting corruption at NFA
At Real World Perspectives, James Koutoulas gives University of Chicago Math Graduate Program his take on trading, Entrepreneurship and fighting corruption at the NFA.
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MF Global Customers Made Whole and Taking on the National Futures Association
James Koutoulas, an attorney and CEO of Typhon Capital and President and Co-Founder of the Commodity Customer Coalition, a non-profit customer advocacy organization formed in response to the MF Global bankruptcy, tells the Street’s Jill Malandrino the CCC works with regulators, Congress, and industry leaders to better protect commodities customers.
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2014 in Review: Geopolitics, Economies, and the US Farmer
Alexandra Lively, RMG’s Chicago News Bureau Chief, live interview with James Koutoulas, CEO Typhon, Robert Chesler, VP at INTL FCStone, and Bob Iaccino, Chief Market Strategist of Tethys Partners, covers the major events affecting financial markets throughout 2014.
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MF Global White Knight James Koutoulas, Still Fighting
Two years ago MF Global blew up taking down $1.6 billion of customer money. In this “Santelli Exchange Extra,” CNBC’s Rick Santelli talks with James Koutoulas, the man who successfully led the battle to reclaim those lost funds.
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How MF Global’s collapse prompted two men to challenge the futures industry
Commodity trading advisers James Koutoulas and John Roe, who manage client money invested in the futures market, were among the investors and traders who lost personal and customer funds in the meltdowns of MF Global Inc. and Peregrine Financial Group Inc. After the MF Global collapse, they created the Chicago-based Commodity Customer Coalition to bring together customers to fight in Bankruptcy Court for the return of their MF Global money. The group also asked Congress for legal and regulatory changes that would better safeguard customer funds.
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Koutoulas, Roe Discuss Corzine’s Testimony from the US Capitol
Counsel for MF Global customers, James Koutoulas and John Roe discuss Jon Corzine’s court testimony in which he stated that he has no idea what happened to 1.2 billion dollars of customer funds. Koutoulas calls the testimony both “cowardly” and a “cop-out.”
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James Koutoulas @jamesKoutoulas Talks MF Global, Jon Corzine, Risk, Future of Futures @MissTrade
James Koutoulas @jamesKoutoulas Talks MF Global, Jon Corzine, Future of Futues with @MissTrade @AgrimanGroup
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Cornering Corzine
Rick Santelli and Council for MF Global customers, James Koutoulas, discuss Corzine’s choice between going out of business, or cheating his customers. Koutoulas states, “The next time a sociopath CEO says, do I go out of business or do I cheat, He’s going to think about the president’s biggest fundraiser in an orange jumpsuit in state prison.”
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The Fall of MF Global: Inside America’s Eighth Largest Bankruptcy
James Koutoulas, founder and CEO of Typhon Capital Management and co-founder of the Commodities Customer Coalition, has been called “The boy wonder of the MF Global nightmare,” by Fortune Magazine. Representing more than 8,000 former MF Global clients, Mr. Koutoulas shared his first-hand account of the bankruptcy case and opine on what happened just before the firm failed. Discussion moderated by Professor Michael Keehner.