What is debt relief?

Debt relief isn’t just one thing. It’s a collection of strategies that can help you manage your unsecured debt. That includes:

Some debt relief options reorganize your debt. Others grant debt forgiveness. 

People often think of debt relief as the same thing as debt settlement. And it should be noted that the companies highlighted on this page are…

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Unified Debt Management office proposed to strengthen public debt governance

DHAKA, Nov 4, 2025 (BSS) – A joint International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank technical assistance mission has recommended establishing a unified Debt Management Office (DMO) in Bangladesh to strengthen the country’s public debt management framework and reduce fiscal and operational risks.

 

The proposal was presented at a workshop titled “Establishing a Debt Management Office” held on Monday at Finance Division in Bangladesh Secretariat here, said a press release. 

The workshop was organized…

Despite the fanfare and hype around the eThekwini Municipality’s 50 percent debt relief programme – hailed by some to be the key to many of the ills currently faced by the general population – the Shallcross Chatsworth Queensburgh Ratepayers Association has put its foot down, deeming this supposed relief as ‘an insufficient and fundamentally flawed response to systemic municipal failures’.

SCQRA is a non-profit organisation representing residential and business ratepayers across Shallcross, Chatsworth, and Queensburgh in the eThekwini Municipality, advocating for accountable governance, service delivery excellence, and ratepayer rights.

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Nazeera Khan, a director of the SCQRA, explained…

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In financial services, application security risk is becoming a long game. Fewer flaws appear in new code, but old ones linger longer, creating a kind of software “interest” that keeps growing, according to Veracode’s 2025 State of Software Security report.

Researchers analyzed data from more than 1.3 million applications and 126 million security findings. Financial institutions perform better than average at preventing severe vulnerabilities, but they are slower to fix them and carry more long-term security debt than most other sectors.

Fewer flaws, but a plateau in progress

57% of financial sector applications had at least one security flaw during their latest static analysis scan. About 55% contained issues listed in…

In the corridors of global finance, a quiet but consequential shift is underway. Wall Street is experimenting with a new phrase, “disaster debt”, shorthand for an emerging anxiety: that the developing world’s collective liabilities, now exceeding US$33 trillion, are approaching a breaking point. Behind the jargon lies a stark truth — global debt is entering an era of structural vulnerability. The question haunting trading desks in New York and London is no longer if sovereign stress will erupt again, but when and how it will be…

The latest figures from insolvency specialist Begbies Traynor’s Red Flag Alert report reveals that 3,409 businesses involved in ‘architecture activities’ are in a state of ‘significant distress’, a 19 per cent rise compared with last year.

A further 529 business in ‘urban planning and landscape architectural activities’ find themselves in a similar position – an 8 per cent rise on 2024.

The report defines ‘significant distress’ as ‘undergoing significant financial and/or business difficulties’ where the company has a weak financial position and may be at risk of sliding into ‘critical distress’ and potential insolvency. A business may be able to trade themselves out of this situation, but is…

But now the business is coming back with a locally owned franchise named Version3 Limited rebuilding the brand from scratch.

The Body Shop NZ’s general manager Khan Wyman and his wife Pamela Bonira said they were proud to bring back the brand, but wanted to correct the record as to what had happened.

“The story that was out there that the general public had was that there were far larger problems than what was the truth,” Wyman said.

“It wasn’t a product issue or a fashionability issue or popularity or anything like that. It was more of a post-Covid restructure or reorganisation-type effort from the parent company. We just saw it as a massive opportunity.”

Wyman said the parent owners were not able to find a buyer for the…