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A debt advice service has become one of the first in the country to join a national scheme targeting illegal lenders.

Swaythling Frontline Debt Advice has been named an official access point for the Stop Loan Sharks scheme, run by the England Illegal Money Lending Team (IMLT) to offer in-person support to victims of illegal lenders.

READ MORE: Eastleigh man to cycle across Hampshire to help people in debt crisis

The Swaythling Frontline Debt Advice office is at St Albans Church on Honeysuckle Road. (Image: Stop Loan Sharks)

Dominic Williams, from Swaythling Frontline Debt Advice, said: “We are delighted to provide an access point to anyone needing the help of the IMLT.

“No one should have to suffer at the hands of illegal money lenders.

“Help…

Swaythling Frontline Debt Advice has been named an official access point for the Stop Loan Sharks scheme, run by the England Illegal Money Lending Team (IMLT) to offer in-person support to victims of illegal lenders.

READ MORE: Eastleigh man to cycle across Hampshire to help people in debt crisis

The Swaythling Frontline Debt Advice office is at St Albans Church on Honeysuckle Road. (Image: Stop Loan Sharks)

Dominic Williams, from Swaythling Frontline Debt Advice, said: “We are delighted to provide an access point to anyone needing the help of the IMLT.

“No one should have to suffer at the hands of illegal money lenders.

“Help is available. You will not be judged.”

While the Stop Loan Sharks helpline…

The recent Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) circular allows restitution of corporate debtor’s assets attached by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) through an application. Kartik Bhatnagar, a lawyer and insolvency professional, has more than a decade of experience and took part in the Jet Airways insolvency case in the Supreme Court. He explains this recent development.

Q1. What is the significance of the circular for the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP)?

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), is prospective and remedial seeking to maximise corporate debtor’s assets’ value for stakeholders. Whereas, the Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA), is…

Treasurer Eric Abetz has continued to defend the TT-Line board’s claim of solvency, citing their independent advice and the government’s guarantee that the critical infrastructure company, which operates the Spirit of Tasmania vessels, won’t fail. Picture: file.

An investor and alleged creditor in Ecsponent, the financially distressed, previously JSE-listed specialist financial services company now named Afristrat Investment Holdings, has thrown a spanner in the works of the company’s planned voluntary liquidation.

Pretoria pensioner Mariana de Bruin has applied to intervene and become a respondent in Afristrat’s voluntary liquidation application, resulting in the matter being removed from the court roll until her intervention application is finalised.

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Afristrat CEO George Manyere, Afristrat directors…

Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana and National Treasury now support the proposal by Minister of Electricity and Energy Kgosientsho Ramokgopa and Eskom that the latter temporarily take over electricity supply in struggling municipalities in order to curb their growing debt to the power utility.

This is despite questionable results in the two municipalities where the so-called Distribution Agency Agreements (DAAs) with Eskom are already in force.

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The South African Local Government Association (Salga), which represents municipalities, is opposed to the…