ABI Blog Exchange

2016-03-24
What happens when you personally file for bankruptcy and have bank accounts or other assets in your children’s names?

Read More from: Bonds & Botes, P.C.

2016-03-24
Favorable economic factors wonÂ't last forever for lending startups. Here are the factors that will make or break nonbank lenders when market conditions get rockier.

Read More from: BankThink

2016-03-24
Editor's note: Morning Scan will not publish on Friday, March 25 in observance of Good Friday. We'll be back on Monday, March 28. Receiving Wide Coverage ...

Read More from: BankThink

2016-03-24
Occasionally I receive emails from people who have read the blog wanting to share their stories or objecting to what I wrote about their case.    They are a poignant reminder that the legal issues we deal with affect real people.   When I write about
2016-03-23
So Noah Feldman has a column up on Bloomberg that suggests that section 903(

Read More from: Credit Slips

2016-03-23
Two Common Chapters Most people are aware that there are two common chapters of bankruptcy for individuals and families. The two chapters are chapter 7 and Chapter 13 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.
2016-03-23
Upcoming Committee Formation Meeting:  March 29, 2016, 10:00 a.m. Case Name: Venoco, Inc., et al. Case Number:  16-10655 (KG)
2016-03-23
The first protection a consumer needs is the assurance that any new reforms will not inadvertently drive all regulated credit from the market.

Read More from: BankThink

2016-03-23
Receiving Wide Coverage ... Sentenced: Rohit Bansal, an ex-Goldman Sachs banker, has been sentenced to probation for taking confidential documents from a source inside the New York Fed.

Read More from: BankThink

2016-03-23
Upcoming Committee Formation Meeting:  April 1, 2016, 10:00 a.m. Case Name: American Hospice Management Holdings, LLC, et al. Case Number:  16-10670 (LSS)
2016-03-23
Emerald Oil, Inc. (NYSE: EOX) and four affiliates have filed chapter 11 petitions before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (Lead Case No.
2016-03-23
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Read More from: WSJ.com: Bankruptcy Beat

2016-03-23
From 1 April 2016, all workers over the age of 25 will have to be paid the National Living Wage (“NLW”) of £7.20 per hour. For workers under the age of 25, the National Minimum Wage (“NMW”) will continue to apply.

Read More from: Squire Patton Boggs

2016-03-23
No money in the wallet, no mediator? By Matthew Gillespie

Read More from: Mediatbankry

2016-03-22
Paul Simon once said that there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.   Two recent cases show that as with failed romances, there are multiple ways to leave chapter 7.     In Torres v. Krueger (Matter of Krueger), No. 14-11135 (5th Cir.
2016-03-22
As the Weil Bankruptcy Blog’s March Madness heads into the Final Four, the question on everyone’s minds is whether the Cinderella team of Sovereign Debt is going to see its fairy tale run come to an end when it meets up with Oil & Gas.  The last
2016-03-22
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Read More from: Credit Slips