Charles Dickens was a great supporter of the Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital in London. In our present era of public service announcements, telethons, fun-runs, cyber-fundraising events and ice bucket challenges, it seems as if every disease or medical cause has a celebrity spokesman drumming up donations and interest. Yet such effective fundraising practices are…
A small credit union that served members of Christ the King Baptist Church in Milwaukee was declared insolvent and shut down by a state regulator Friday. CTK Credit Union, 7750 N. 60th St., was closed by the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions, which appointed the National Credit Union Administration, or NCUA, to liquidate it.…
My husbands business is successful, but I have never really looked at how our personal assets may be exposed if it ever goes belly up. We have a £2m home, which I co-own. So I would like to find out how best we can protect the house and my own half-share of the house against…
In 1999, Sydney was at its peak the Olympic Games were imminent and there was unbridled optimism that Sydney was about to emerge as an international city as the millennium approached. Internationally, Sydney was renowned as an incredibly fun place to live; the entertainment was world class, with great restaurants and venues to visit at…
Shutterstock photo Federal investigators recently searched the Manhattan offices of an investment firm once headed by young insurance magnate Alexander Chatfield Burns, whose empire collapsed in 2014 amid allegations that millions of dollars had been siphoned off into unusual or nonexistent investments. The Jan. 14 raid by federal agents, confirmed by people familiar…
Breaking CBC News Posted: Feb 04, 2016 12:59 PM ET Last Updated: Feb 04, 2016 12:59 PM ET Leather-wear chain Danier, which has begun insolvency proceedings, has 90 stores across Canada. (Aaron Vincent Elkaim/Canadian Press) Canadian retailer Danier Leather has begun insolvency proceedings that could lead to a sale of all or part of the…
Months before the digital currency exchange Cryptsy declared its insolvency and claimed it was the target of a debilitating hack and theft, CEO Paul Vernon’s estranged wife claimed in a court filing that she was afraid her husband would flee the country with funds taken from businesses he owns, including Cryptsy. Court documents obtained by…
Some political myths are more believable than others. Some of them contain grains of truth, or perverse elements of pseudo-logic that seem to make sense when considered in isolation. Other political myths are pure unadulterated rubbish, that nobody should be falling for them. Claims that the UK has been “bankrupted” are amongst this class of…
Published 04/02/2016 | 02:30 (Stock image) International ratings agency Moody’s has controversially suggested large numbers of mortgage holders have stopped making repayments in a bid to get debts written off. Share Go To Banks have in the past suggested that a large number of those in arrears are so-called strategic defaulters – those who make…
National Greyhound Form PTY LTD has been placed into administration with many people in the industry left out of pocket after the abrupt disappearance of Hotdogs.com.au and print publication National Greyhound Form. Paid-up subscribers have flooded social media sites and greyhound forums with complaints after the popular website was taken offline at the end of…