Insolvency Board to pull up firms acting as resolution professionals to banks – Economic Times

NEW DELHI | MUMBAI: The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) is looking into a complaint that some professional service firms were acting as insolvency resolution professionals (IRPs) to help banks manage and restructure insolvent companies. Under law, professional entities can’t enrol themselves as an insolvency professional or become a member of another agency…

The bragged they’d get you out of debt. They ripped off $70 million, Florida says. – Miami Herald

In a debt-relief scheme that affected about 15,000 people across the country, three telemarketing executives headquartered in Pompano Beach and using a branch in Panama bilked victims out of an estimated $70 million, according to the Florida Attorney Generals Office, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the attorney working to retrieve assets in the complex…

Ex-American Apparel CEO Dov Charney is counting on your amnesia for his fashion comeback – The Sydney Morning Herald

Dov Charney refuses to disappear. In a recent interview with Bloomberg, the disgraced CEO of American Apparel, whose famously skeezy behaviour saw him ousted from his business two years ago, unveiled a thriving new venture a wholesale basics company called, you guessed it, Los Angeles Apparel. “It still is a nail-biter,” says Charney, who has re-hired…

An Australian Entrepreneur And Ron Suber Want To Fix America’s Student Debt Crisis With A Fintech Solution – Benzinga

A trillion-dollar black cloud of student debt hangs over multiple generations of Americans. Student debt is delaying marriages, major purchases, home ownership and general enjoyment of life for millions of people. Theres more student debt than even credit card debt. Somethings gotta give at some point, but before that happens, there are fintech companies stepping…

NCLT admits ICICI Bank’s insolvency petition against ABG Shipyard – Business Standard

Yet another large defaulter, ABG Shipyard Ltd., on Tuesday saw insolvency proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) 2016 being initiated by the Ahmedabad bench of National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT).  The bench, chaired by Justice Bikki Raveendra Babu, admitted the petition for insolvency proceedings initiated by lender ICICI Bank against ABG…