Category Archives: Bankruptcy

Book Review: Better Bankers, Better Banks: Promoting Good Business through Contractual Commitment by Claire A … – EUROPP – European Politics and Policy (blog)

In Better Bankers, Better Banks: Promoting Good Business through Contractual Commitment, Claire A. Hill and Richard W. Painter provide an account of the changes to banking that encouraged the risk-taking that became a factor in the global financial crisis, and propose a solution: covenant banking. The authors suggestion of binding bankers to contracts that encourage accountability…

Mahidol aims to have defaulting lecturer declared bankrupt – Bangkok Post

Dr Banchong Mahaisavariya, vice president of Mahidol University, speaks of the controversial scholarship defaulter at a press conference at the university in Nakhon Pathom province on Tuesday. (Photo by Chanat Katanyu) Related Stories Mahidol University will try to have a former lecturer who defaulted on a 10-million-baht state scholarship in the US declared bankrupt in…

Vesta Company Requests Eastward Capital Insolvency – Property Xpress Newswire (subscription)

February 02, 2016, 14:12, (Property Xpress) – Vesta company filed an insolvency request with the Moscow Arbitration Court against Eastward Capital at the en … This article contains 322 words. The rest of this article is for Property Xpress users, subscribed to the Russian market only. Please sign in using the login form in the…

Five Stories To Watch in the Arch Coal Bankruptcy – The Daily Score

.@ArchCoals management hopes to use bankruptcy protection to shed $4.5 billion in debt. In case you somehow missed the news, Arch Coal, North Americas second largest coal company, filed for bankruptcy a few weeks back. Archs management hopes to use bankruptcy protection to shed $4.5 billion in debtmoney that Arch borrowed from investors near the peak of the coal…

Mahidol aims to have deadbeat lecturer declared bankrupt – Bangkok Post

Dr Banchong Mahaisavariya, vice president of Mahidol University, speaks of the controversial scholarship defaulter at a press conference at the university in Nakhon Pathom province on Tuesday. (Photo by Chanat Katanyu) Related Stories Mahidol University will try to have a former lecturer who defaulted on a 10-million-baht state scholarship in the US declared bankrupt in…

Yentob and the BBC: It’s not over til the lady sings – Slipped Disc

Back February 1, 2016 by norman lebrecht The Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee spares no one in its report on the collapse of Kids Company: Camila Batmanghelidjh, the trustees, government ministers, the auditors and regulators. However, the heaviest criticism is for the charity trustees led by the BBCs Alan Yentob. Yentob is described…

2015 personal insolvencies ‘expected to be at lowest level in a decade’ – AOL Money UK

The number of people whose financial situation was so bad that they became insolvent in 2015 is expected to be at its lowest levels in a decade in official figures released on Friday. Creditor services firm RSM predicts that across England and Wales, the Insolvency Service’s figures will show there were around 80,000 personal insolvencies…

Company insolvencies fall to lowest level in more than 25 years – East Anglian Daily Times

12:07 29 January 2016 The number of companies going insolvent in England and Wales fell last year to its lowest level since 1989. Photo: Chris Radburn/PA Wire Company insolvencies across England and Wales fell last year to the lowest level in more than a quarter of a century, according to figures released today. Share link……

Former Rangers and Dundee United star Duncan Ferguson declared bankrupt – Herald Scotland

Former Scotland star Duncan Ferguson has been declared bankrupt. The football star – known a Big Dunc – played for Rangers and Dundee United and is now a first team coach at Everton. It has emerged that a bankruptcy petition was filed against him by HMRC on December 1. Loading article content This was granted…

Corporate and personal insolvencies fall, latest figures reveal – Accountancy Age

COMPANY insolvencies in 2015 were at their lowest level since 1989, the latest Insolvency Service figures published today, reveal. The downward trend was primarily driven by a decrease in compulsory liquidations, which fell to the lowest annual total since 1981. Further reading Personal insolvencies followed a similar trajectory, with the total individual insolvencies recording their…