BROKE: 66 declare bankruptcy on the Coast in 3 months – The Sunshine Coast Daily

ONE-hundred-and-thirty-eight people in the Sunshine Coast and Noosa region have filed for bankruptcy or started personal insolvency activity in the December quarter of 2016. Of those 138, 66 filed for bankruptcy and 59 started a debt agreement and personal insolvency with debtors. A further 13 in the Sunshine Coast hinterland were counted in the total…

Haitong Bank Brings Forward Its Global Restructuring Plan – Business Wire (press release)

LISBON, Portugal–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Haitong Bank, 100% wholly owned by Haitong Securities, a company listed in the Shanghai and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges, will initiate a global restructuring plan in the beginning of March 2017, called Haitong Bank 2025. This initiative aims to align the investment Banks positioning with the new trends shaping the sector as well…

Here’s what must be done to detect, disrupt and deter phoenix activity in Australia – The Conversation AU

To stamp out illegal phoenix activity, directors should be required to have identification numbers. And, if theyve had many corporate failures, they should be classed in a new probationary category, our research shows. These are a few of several measures we have designed to detect and pre-emptively disrupt those bent on using company liquidation or…

Phoenixing companies too easy and lucrative in Australia, new report finds – ABC Online

Phoenixing companies, which costs the Australian economy billions of dollars a year, is too easy, cheap, lucrative and is largely invisible, according to a new report into the practice. What is phoenixing? When a director strips cash and assets before hiding them and liquidating the company, then restarting Usually restarted under a different…