2016-05-19
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Read More from: WSJ.com: Bankruptcy Beat
2016-05-19
A couple of student loan scams to discuss
NCT robo-signer
this week.
NCT and robo-signing
Read More from: Discharge Student Loan
2016-05-18
Requiring banks to improve records on which depositors are insured overlooks how the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. resolves failures.
Read More from: BankThink
2016-05-18
Although our Blog focuses more on corporate restructuring issues than individual bankruptcies, the discharge of student loan debt is a topic that seems to be an exception to that rule (see
Read More from: Business Finance & Restructuring News - Weil
2016-05-18
The Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010 (“TPR”) will finally come into force on 1 August 2016, making it easier for third parties to bring claims against insurers of insolvent companies. It has taken more than six years, spread over thr
Read More from: Squire Patton Boggs
2016-05-18
The CFPB has a new report out on auto title lending, and the findings are jaw-dropping.
Read More from: Credit Slips
2016-05-18
The silver that Jeffrey Mark McMeel bought from Northwest Territorial Mint never arrived to his home in Washington, but the unorthodox method he chose to protect his investment has him facing sanctions in a Seattle courtroom on Friday.
Read More from: WSJ.com: Bankruptcy Beat
2016-05-18
For a more immediate payoff, community banks should focus marketing on older customers that are facing a new set of economic pressures.
Read More from: BankThink
2016-05-18
Wall Street Journal
JPMorgan Chase is trying to seal off potential gaps in its security system by limiting which employees can access Swift. Unnamed sources said JPMorgan began reducing employee access in recent weeks.
Read More from: BankThink
2016-05-18
I have previously reported extensively on Teresa Guidice of the Real Housewives o
Read More from: Bonds & Botes, P.C.
2016-05-18
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Read More from: WSJ.com: Bankruptcy Beat
2016-05-18
By: Donald L Swanson
“Testimony from the mediator would be crucial . . . and . . . refusing to compel that testimony posed a serious threat.”
Read More from: Mediatbankry
2016-05-18
Action Item. In every bankruptcy mediation where the fight is still fresh, we need to recognize that a one-and-done session expectation is probably unrealistic—and adjust our expectations accordingly.
Read More from: Mediatbankry
2016-05-17
Crooked lawyers, judges and doctors are often common fodder in works of fiction. The story of how Kentucky attorney Eric Conn, Administrative Law Judge
Read More from: Bonds & Botes, P.C.
2016-05-17
A district court in Michigan affirmed the bankruptcy court's finding that once the debtor signed an lease assumption agreement post-petition, they could not revoke it despite the failure to comply with the requ
Read More from: Tampa Bankruptcy
2016-05-17
As these economic times get tougher and tougher for debtors, I am confronted on a weekly and sometimes daily basis regarding their plight.
Read More from: David M. Siegel | Chicago Bankruptcy Law
2016-05-17
In our latest installment of “Breaking the Code”, we take a look at a common section of the Bankruptcy Code that comes up in nearly every chapter 11 case: section 365(a). Section 365 contains one of the most powerful rights conferred upon a chapter
Read More from: Business Finance & Restructuring News - Weil
2016-05-17
Requiring the bank regulators to disclose the numerical grades they give for capital, assets and other factors would subject them to the same market discipline they demand for banks.
Read More from: BankThink