http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-30/mf-global-told-s-p-it-had-never-been-stronger-one-week-before-collapse.html
"A week before MF Global Holdings Ltd. (MF) collapsed, its chief financial officer told Standard & Poor’s in an e-mail that the futures broker had “never been stronger.”
“MF Global is in its strongest position ever,” Steenkamp told S&P on Oct. 24, according to the letter to Representative Randy Neugebauer, a Texas Republican, from Craig Parmelee, a managing director at S&P in New York."