Crain’s Chicago Business Two board members of the National Futures Association filed a complaint with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission alleging that the organization skirted its own rules in selecting candidates for the board and then falsified its records…. The dispute revolves around details of the nomination process for the... read more →
Dec
23
Dec
09
FuturesMag.com Since our election, we have continued standing up for the industry, especially for CTAs and CPOs that struggle to deal with ever increasing and changing regulation. If you deem us worthy of second terms, we will continue to work hard to balance customer protections with regulatory efficiency and reduce... read more →
Nov
26
DailyFinance “At a recent industry event, Koutoulas gave a detailed presentation on the pitfalls of certain ETFs. For example, between October of 2008 and June of 2010 the price of crude oil futures almost quadrupled, yet the ETF for oil, USO, stayed basically flat due to the cost of rolling... read more →
Jul
28
CTA Playbook “James Koutoulas, the tireless champion of futures customers harmed in the MF Global implosion, and one of our CTA representatives on NFA’s board of directors, was one of the first people who signed the “Just Say No” petition regarding NFA’s recent idea to impose capital requirements on CTAs.”
Apr
03
Futures Magazine James Koutoulas, co-founder of the Commodity Customer Coalition (CCC), says, “While MF Global was one of the most catastrophic events in the history of the futures industry, I'm elated that after two-and-a-half years customers are finally going to be made whole.”
Apr
03
New York Times “It’s been a two-and-a-half-year roller coaster ride for 38,000 customers,” said James L. Koutoulas, a Chicago hedge fund manager and lawyer who became a voice for MF Global customers whose money disappeared. “But it’s a great feeling that they have been made whole – at last.”
Nov
27
Forbes But Koutoulas is incensed by a CFTC proposal to beef up customer protection by requiring those who trade on margin to post 20% of their positions, up from 10% now. The rule’s intent is to protect customers from the risk that other customers won’t make good on their margin... read more →
Oct
02
The Wall Street Journal "It's horrible the customers had to endure being deprived of their property," said James Koutoulas, president of Commodity Customer Coalition, a group representing customers of commodities brokers. "But it's great…to put it behind them."
Jun
05
Reuters James Koutoulas, a lawyer and money manager, who co-founded the Commodity Customer Coalition to advocate for former MF Global and Peregrine customers offered cautious optimism on the CFTC suit on Wednesday. "It's really the first ray of hope that we've seen for a while, and it's a good one,"... read more →
May
03
Chicago Tribune A U.S. congressman is pressing for the appointment of an independent counsel to take over a federal criminal probe into the collapse of the MF Global Holdings Ltd brokerage firm. Michael Grimm, a first-term Republican congressman from New York City and member of the House Financial Services Committee,... read more →