Good morning, this is Richard Parkin bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Wednesday 15 August. Top stories At least 23 people have been killed in the Italian city of Genoa after a bridge collapsed, with the debris from an 80m section of the Morandi Bridge being described by eyewitnesses as an apocalypse. A…
Centrelink is for the first time trialling a version of its automated debt recovery system on the nations most vulnerable welfare recipients, bypassing previous safeguards designed to protect those with severe mental illness, intellectual impairment or drug addiction. Welfare recipients whose files are marked with a vulnerability indicator have so far been exempt from Centrelinks…
MORE people across south and west Dorset are becoming unable to pay their debts, new figures show. Figures released by the according to Insolvency Service show that the rate of personal insolvencies in Weymouth and Portland has increased by almost a third over the last two years with West Dorset also showing similar trends. Weymouth…
Request for Type A meeting was granted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to discuss the Complete Response Letter received in June 2018 Balance sheet remains strong with over $100 million in cash BURLINGTON, Mass., Aug. 14, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — scPharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: SCPH), a pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products…
The Courts of Justice, in partnership with the Registrar of Companies, has acquired an EU grant to develop an integrated National Insolvency Register that will in future be interconnected to the European e-Justice Portal. This electronic register aims to provide information to the public about entities and traders that are facing insolvency and provides information…
Mybet Holdings management board confirmed this (Tuesday) afternoon that it is preparing an application to open insolvency proceedings after talks with a strategic investor collapsed. The board said in a statement that the company owes 4m (£3.5m/$4.5m) in sports betting taxes and faces imminent illiquidity. An application covering all three of mybets German group companies…
To determine which credit cards are best for getting out of debt, CNBC Make It compiled a list of 25 highly rated cards, most of which are recognized as balance-transfer cards. Others are considered cash-back cards first but still have features that help users get out of debt. We vetted each card based on its…
Tally Growing up in the woods of Breckenridge, Colorado, and homeschooled by fundamentalist Christian parents, Jason Brown remembers being constantly anxious about money. When he finally left to start college at Boston University, he had no financial support from his parents and relied on scholarships and loans. He helped pay off his debts by starting…
A middle-aged Melbourne cat burglar broke into the homes of wealthy people and stole jewellery and valuables, including a $60,000 watch, to pay debts owed to people he met at the casino. Chinese-born Di Miao, 54, pleaded guilty today to four burglaries at homes in Melbourne’s affluent eastern suburbs over several years, sometimes wearing a…
Its believed the Sydney rap artist who was killed with a samurai sword in the citys west had racked up gambling debts. Detectives are treating the death of Jett McKee in Forest Lodge on Friday as a robbery gone wrong. They said Mr McKee had broken into a couples home armed with a replica pistol,…