Judge Approves Second Payout to MF Global Creditors

NEW YORK—A judge Wednesday said MF Global Inc. could distribute more than $480 million to unsecured creditors of the collapsed brokerage, bringing their recoveries to about 74% of what they are owed. “The results to date in these cases have certainly surprised me,” Judge Martin Glenn of U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan said. “Enormous progress has been made.” Creditors should begin receiving the money 14 days after the judge signs the order. These creditors will have received nearly $1 billion after the payout, an outcome many considered unthinkable when the brokerage’s parent imploded into bankruptcy in the fall of 2011. More in the Wall Street Journal here.