Brokers face fresh costs after MF Global collapse "Smaller firms dominate the advisory and investment sector and they clearly do not have the capital available to make the sizeable pay-outs that are an integral part of the scheme on behalf of other companies," he said. I am aware of a FTSE 250 firm whose costs have risen by 270pc under the compensation scheme, year on year, from 2009 to 2010. That includes some £4.7m of interim levy costs for Keydata, a current cost of £470,000 for MF Global - again, I fear that that is an interim cost - and some £700,000 for Arch Cru. The company had predicted its total cost for MF Global could end up being £9.5m.