Cash manager that pledged $444M of customer securities for its own loan filed for bankruptcy in 2007

Sentinel Management Group, Inc. · Cash management for futures brokers

Misuse of raised fundsDouble pledgeRegulatory breach

The case in brief

Visible before detection

Checks that could have surfaced it, on hindsight

A check of the bank's collateral records would show customer securities pledged for Sentinel's own loan.

Can mislead when: Pledges made off the registries stay invisible, and vague invoice descriptions are hard to match.

Bank confirmation would show the loan and its collateral.

Can mislead when: Counterparties can collude or ignore requests. A non-response is logged as a gap, never as a pass.

CFTC reporting records would show the false no-payable statements.

Can mislead when: Court records lag and name spellings vary. A clean record can mean the problem has not reached court yet.

Where Kubr services would have helped

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C8 CFTC reporting records would show the false no-payable statements.
C13 A check of the bank's collateral records would show customer securities pledged for Sentinel's own loan.

Offered in India

C8 CFTC reporting records would show the false no-payable statements.
C13 A check of the bank's collateral records would show customer securities pledged for Sentinel's own loan.

Offered in India

C8 CFTC reporting records would show the false no-payable statements.
C13 A check of the bank's collateral records would show customer securities pledged for Sentinel's own loan.

Offered in India

C8 CFTC reporting records would show the false no-payable statements.
C13 A check of the bank's collateral records would show customer securities pledged for Sentinel's own loan.

Mapped from the checks each service runs. A hindsight reading of public records, not a promise that the failure would have been found.

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