NORTHERN Rivers residents are starting to pay off their debts as new figures revealed less people declared bankruptcy in 2016. The latest figures from the Australian Financial Services Authority showed 35 bankrupt debtors including nine business-related and 26 non-business related insolvencies in the December quarter. Over the whole year 158 people declared bankruptcy compared with…
Readers’ travel tips: Travel insurance and insolvency Say goodbye to your $32,000 if you haven’t taken out the right travel insurance. Photo: iStock Cape Town cruise cancellation: Be sure your travel insurance covers insolvency. Photo: iStock exit TIP OF THE WEEK SINKING FEELING I agree with “Bitter Pills” (Tip-o-meter, January) regarding travel insurance and have…
There have been some “proper tulips” among the last 17 Transport Ministers but none of them brought Bus Éireann to the brink of insolvency, an Oireachtas Committee has heard. Transport Minister Shane Ross has repeated that it would be “absolutely wrong” of him to intervene in the “nitty gritty” of the Bus Éireann dispute, writes…
Billionaires ‘launched a campaign of abuse against Mark Holyoake and family’ Alleged threats began when their luxury property business deal turned sour Mr Holyoake’s wife Emma said she feared Christian Candy might ‘get rid’ of her husband She said three other Candy associates including Scot Young ‘died mysteriously’ Allegations are latest to emerge in £132m…
An Abuja company has asked the Federal High Court and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to wind up Heritage Bank and revoke its operational licence, citing what it called the banks financial insolvency. Geonel Integrated Services Limited, a security services company, said in a petition filed at the Federal High Court that Heritage Bank has been showing signs of distress and insolvency in recent…
The number of people with mortgage debt they are unable to repay who chose bankruptcy doubled to 100 last year. Banks lost two-thirds of the mortgage debt in these cases, as they are forced to write off most of the money they are owed. New figures compiled by Waterford-based personal insolvency practitioner Mitchell O’Brien show…
Andrew McTear, partner at McTear, Williams & Wood. Picture: DENISE BRADLEY Archant A firm of East Anglian insolvency specialists is helping companies diagnose problems earlier after launching one of the UKs most comprehensive business health checks. … Read the full article at: http://www.edp24.co.uk/business/insolvency_specialists_offer_companies_a_free_check_up_1_4908410
The superannuation industry wants the government to cover any outstanding entitlements when a company goes broke but bureaucrats warn it is a bad idea that will cost $800 million over the next four years. Super funds have called for an expanded taxpayer-funded safety net as part of a Senate inquiry into non-payment of the 9.5 per…
A publicity drive aimed at making more people aware of free legal and financial advice available to those in mortgage distress has commenced. It comes after research revealed that two-thirds of those who could benefit most from such a scheme did not know it existed. The Abhaile scheme was launched last July as a one-stop…
EX-STAFF of a prominent Mooloolaba restaurant will only receive about 13 cents for every dollar of superannuation they’re owed by former boss Todd Young. Mr Young hit Las Vegas with his partner just days after winding up Todd Young Investments Pty Ltd on December 29, 2015. His company operated Bella Venezia restaurant at Mooloolaba through…