Debt collection giant Panthera puts large parts of its business into administration | Debt collection

Major private debt collector Panthera Finance has appointed new directors and put parts of the company into administration as it seeks to sell off its scandal-plagued business. Last month, Guardian Australia revealed Panthera, one of the country’s biggest private debt collection firms, had circumvented a blacklisting designed to stop it from operating in Victoria and…

Constance Hall puts her online fashion business Queen The Label into voluntary administration after being ‘stressed out for seven years’: ‘I’ve been drowning and I have nothing left’

 Constance Hall has put her online fashion business into voluntary administration. The mother-of-six took to Facebook late Thursday evening to announce she would be shutting up shop on Queen The Label after being ‘stressed out for seven years’. In a long-winded post, Constance, 40, said she ‘dreaded’ breaking the news, and that administrators will be coming…

Long-embattled 2U declares bankruptcy

2U, a fading giant in the online program manager space, announced Thursday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. While the company said the process will put it back in a competitive position, experts said the filing creates an incentive for longtime customers to rework their contracts or finally jump ship from an OPM plagued…