New housing construction is seen at Schofields, north west of Sydney, Thursday, November 10, 2022. Source: AAP Image/ Bianca De Marchi The number of business insolvencies boomed in late 2023 and is poised to accelerate in 2024, official data shows, but industry professionals say the growing use of the small business restructuring scheme is a…
What does it mean when a local authority goes “bankrupt”? Local authorities cannot actually go “bankrupt” in the way that a company or an individual can. Instead, they issue what is known as a section 114 notice. This is a report from the council’s finance officer that they believe that the authority is about to…
Back when scientific publications came in paper form, libraries played a key role in ensuring that knowledge didn’t disappear. Copies went out to so many libraries that any failure—a publisher going bankrupt, a library getting closed—wouldn’t put us at risk of losing information. But, as with anything else, scientific content has gone digital, which has…
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The Iowa Superintendent of Banking has closed a Sac City bank — the first bank closing in Iowa since 2011. Citizens Bank in Sac City opened in 1929. According to a news release issued Friday night by the Iowa Banking Division, the bank was declared insolvent after bank examiners “identified significant loan losses that previously…
Chinese regulators are pushing banks to speed up approvals of new loans to cash-starved private property developers, people with knowledge of the matter said, a bid to revive homebuyer sentiment that risks denting lenders’ asset quality. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s struggling real estate developers won’t be getting a major bailout,…
Following a consultation in 2023, the Insolvency Service will merge the monthly and quarterly statistics while maintaining monthly frequency. This the last release in the current format. The first release in the new format will be published on 26 April 2024. It will be available on the Company Insolvency Statistics releases page. 1. Main messages for England…
New York CNN — Rite Aid filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Sunday, a casualty of a miserable environment for drug stores, exacerbated by its runner-up status to bigger chains and expensive legal battles for allegedly filling unlawful opioid prescriptions. The bankruptcy was not a surprise. Its bigger rivals, CVS and Walgreens, are also facing…
Billionaire and owner of top companies like Tesla, SpaceX, and X Corp, Elon Musk, issued a stark warning to the United States about its spending habits, suggesting that continued overspending could lead the country to bankruptcy. “Overspending must cease or America faces bankruptcy,” Musk emphasized on Twitter. His remarks came in response to a tweet…
