Germany’s troubled Deutsche Bank is imposing a hiring freeze across all global operations as it “braces” itself for a huge penalty from the US Department of Justice, says The Times. The lender has stopped recruitment in every department except compliance. It has already agreed 1,000 additional job cuts in its home market, on top of…
Kimberley Kitching is smart, charming and engaging. She has been a Melbourne councillor, a lawyer, a political adviser and a senior union manager. Kitching ticks many Labor boxes. But Bill Shorten made a terrible call backing her to replace Stephen Conroy in the Senate, a plum role once held by Labor giants John Button and Gareth Evans.…
Dodgy private colleges will be banned from receiving taxpayer money and student loans capped under a sweeping redesign of the scandal-plagued vocational loans scheme by the Turnbull government. The overhaul, to be announced by Education Minister Simon Birmingham on Wednesday after being approved by cabinet on Tuesday, will wipe an estimated $25 billion from federal…
Anthony Hodges, a Basingstoke-based IT consultant, has been barred from acting as a company director for eight years due to mischief undertaken as his company went into liquidation. Investigating the demise of management consultancy Hodges & Coley, of which Hodges was the sole director, the Insolvency Service said it had discovered that he had failed…
October 13th, 2016 Holly Birkett Asia, Finance and Insurance, Offshore 0 comments Malaysian oil and gas company Perisai Petroleum Teknologi has declared itself insolvent and has been classified as a Practice Note 17 (PN17) company. On Tuesday, the company disclosed it is unable to pay the principal and interest of the S$125m ($91.9m) bond issued by its…
Comments (0) Lisa Thomas, insolvency practitioner at Neville & Co looks at the importance of adequate protection for customer’s deposits One of the first questions we are often asked by directors of a company in trouble is: “Will I get disqualified from being a director?” It is actually a rare occurrence to be banned as a…
This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on October 13, 2016. KUALA LUMPUR: Perisai Petroleum Teknologi Bhd, which became the first Malaysian oil and gas (O&G) company to fall victim to the slump in oil prices, has declared itself insolvent, after it could not pay the principal and interest of the S$125 million…
The Laughing Samoans/YouTube The Laughing Samoans play ‘Piggyback’ The Laughing Samoans will continue to entertain despite one half of the comic duo being declared bankrupt. The Wellington act, performed by Eteuati Ete and Tofiga Fepulea’i, are a popular live comedy act. The pair, who started performing in 2003 and have a show on Ma… Read the…
An opinion issued this week is the first examination by a Scottish court of the principle of ‘modified universalism’ and the requirements for an enforceable floating charge where all the company’s property is situated in a non-UK jurisdiction. This opinion by Lord Tyre in the Court of Session concerns three companies incorporated in Scotland, but…
Magik Theatre in need of help Bryan Wendland, KENS 5:31 PM. CDT October 11, 2016 SAN ANTONIO — Crumbling walls, broken lights that can’t be replaced and an air conditioning system as old as Hemisfair. Those are just a few of the problems Magik Theatre faces as it pays down hundreds of thousands of dollars…