Katie Price faces a wait to see whether more of her income will go directly towards paying off money owed under her two bankruptcies.

The former glamour model was declared bankrupt in November 2019 and again in March last year, and the bankruptcies have since been discharged.

However, Price, who did not attend the hearing and was not represented, still owes money as a result of the bankruptcies, and she had previously reached a voluntary agreement over her debts.

On Friday, barrister Darragh Connell, representing trustees, told a specialist court in London she has not paid the £12,500 a month.

He asked Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Sebastian Prentis to make an income…

On June 10, the CFPB moved to reopen its 2021 enforcement action against the final remaining defendant in a student debt relief case involving over $3.4 million in alleged illegal advance fees. The Bureau, under Acting Director Russel Vought, told the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California it will proceed against the individual defendant following a four-month stay.

The CFPB previously settled with the other defendants in the case, including the company and its nominal owner, who agreed to dissolve the business and pay a $2,000 civil penalty based on an inability to pay. The current motion seeks to lift the administrative stay and proceed with summary judgement briefing against the final defendant.

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BIOMILQ—a startup culturing mammary cells to produce bioactives found in breastmilk—has filed for bankruptcy amid a protracted IP dispute with the ex-husband of one of the cofounders that she says rendered the firm “uninvestable and unacquirable.”

Founded in 2020 by cell biologist Dr. Leila Strickland and food scientist Michelle Egger, North Carolina-based BIOMILQ originally planned to produce cell-cultured human milk in bioreactors full of “lactating” mammary epithelial cells. It later pivoted to using the cells as mini-biofactories to produce high-value bioactives found in breastmilk such as human milk oligosaccharides, osteopontin, and exosomes.

The firm, which has raised $24.5 million from investors…

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Since March 2025, the focus of the news release on bankruptcies has been on the change compared to the previous year and on the bankruptcy rate. This is the number of declared bankruptcies per 100 thousand businesses. The bankruptcy rate provides a clearer picture of the change in the number of bankruptcies in the Netherlands. It also allows for better comparison between sectors. The number of businesses can fluctuate over time and differ greatly between sectors.