Greece might have a long way to go to recover from its devastating crisis, but things are finally starting to look up after the countrys creditors agreed a deal to unlock the next stage of its bailout programme and help it avoid a default. Prices for the governments few publicly-traded bonds hit their highest level…
As Ten Network struggles through a drawn out insolvency process, there are many industry experts talking about the value that would have been preserved if the company had been able to get legal protection from its creditors. It now appears certain that the mess at Ten will be exacerbated by the appointment of receivers by…
Police swoop on a luxury Sydney apartment building, ending the 11-month flight of a problem gambler said to be linked to a colourful former mayor’s decision to carry a bag with $50,000 through a Melbourne airport. Inside the Sydney apartment, Queensland police will allege, is $207,000 in cash and another $50,000 in poker chips, despite…
The new rules aim at facilitating debt recovery in cross-border insolvency proceedings. They will make it easier for businesses to restructure and for creditors to get their money back, by ensuring that collective procedures for cross-border debt recovery are effective and efficient. The Regulation focuses on resolving the conflicts of jurisdiction and laws in cross-border…
By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail Published: 10:57 +10:00, 26 June 2017 | Updated: 11:20 +10:00, 26 June 2017 e-mail 34 View comments Kevin Maxwell faces being declared bankrupt at the High Court in London for a second time, Sebastian Shakespeare reveals Kevin Maxwell was declared the biggest personal bankrupt in British history in 1992,…
A large potion of Auctionatas holdings is going under the hammer in Berlin and Cologne this week, marking perhaps the final chapter in the companys tumultuous five-year history. The sales, which come five months after the German online art auctioneer began insolvency proceedings (the German equivalent of bankruptcy) in January, offer new insight into Auctionatas business…
Photo: PTI Bankers are worried over RBI’s new diktat seeking higher bad loan provisioning In what has come as a shocker for banks amid the ongoing bankruptcy proceedings as part of measures to tackle the bad loan menace, the Reserve Bank of India has reportedly asked banks to undertake a steep increase in provisioning requirements…
by Ashley Armstrong On San Francisco’s historic Union Square, the Macy’s building has stood proudly for decades. It covers an entire city block and claims the title of the second-largest department store in the United States, a West Coast destination for generations of shoppers. But as San Francisco has been transformed from a working port…
Debt counselling company, Debt Rescue, says it has experienced a substantial increase in financially distressed consumers applying for debt review over the past few months. Debt Rescue CEO, Neil Roets said that since the beginning of January there had been a marked increase in the number of consumers who sought relief by going under debt…
NEW DELHI/ KOLKATA: Efficiency of the resolution infrastructure depends on the capabilities of the insolvency professionals The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI), the regulator overseeing bad-loan resolutions, is scaling up its capabilityassessment procedures to ensure that quality Insolvency Professionals are deployed in the potentially `8 lakh-crore exercise, seeking to win over an ecosystem…