ABI Blog Exchange

2016-01-14
This week, Montgomery hosts the Alabama’s Distinguished Young Women (DYW) Program to determ

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

2016-01-14
A New York Times article published in October discusses how litigation financing may warp the legal system.

Read More from: WSJ.com: Bankruptcy Beat

2016-01-14
Financial services issues that helped define a presidency were largely absent from Tuesday's State of the Union address, including the crucial policy items that have not yet been resolved.

Read More from: BankThink

2016-01-14
A Wyoming mine owned by St. Louis-based Arch Coal Inc., which filed for chapter 11 this week.

Read More from: WSJ.com: Bankruptcy Beat

2016-01-14
The physical branch network is not dead, but to ensure its viability banks need to get serious about trimming it down and combining branches with digital channels.

Read More from: BankThink

2016-01-14
Breaking News This Morning ... Earnings: JPMorgan Chase Receiving Wide Coverage ...

Read More from: BankThink

2016-01-14
New York City taxi king Evgeny “Gene” Freidman illegally transferred more than $60 million worth of real estate into offshore accounts so ex-lender Citibank NA wouldn’t be able to access it, a judge ruled.

Read More from: WSJ.com: Bankruptcy Beat

2016-01-13
Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code trusts a debtor in possession to operate its business.  In general, a debtor in possession “is free to use, sell[,] or lease property of the . . . estate in the operation of the debtor’s business.”1  This discretion
2016-01-13
Forecasting U.S. bankruptcy filings for this year was a little more complicated.

Read More from: Credit Slips

2016-01-13
The foreign representative of Metinvest B.V., the parent company of a vertically integrated group of steel and mining companies headquartered in Ukraine, has filed a chapter 15 proceeding before the Un
2016-01-13
I am sure that all of us have been pleasantly surprised and relieved by the substantial decrease in gasoline prices over the past year.  As a bankruptcy

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

2016-01-13
While this blog has nothing to do with bankruptcy or even law in general, I thought it would be both fun and timely to explain how and why the Powerball is

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

2016-01-13
The opportunity for banks from the dramatic growth in deposits goes beyond just funding loans.

Read More from: BankThink

2016-01-13
Duck Commander Family Foods and Chinook USA

Read More from: WSJ.com: Bankruptcy Beat

2016-01-13
 “‘Two roads diverged in the woods and I took the road less traveled’ [sic] … and it hurt, man! Not cool, Robert Frost! … But what if there really were two paths?  I want to be on the one that leads to awesome.”
2016-01-13
Thirty-four affiliates of Variant Holding Company, LLC (“Variant”) have filed chapter 11 petitions before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.  The debtors will seek to have their cases jointly administered with that of Va
2016-01-13
When can a bank be at risk of unknowingly receiving a fraudulent transfer?  How much information does a bank need to have before it is on “inquiry notice”?  A recent

Read More from: Squire Patton Boggs

2016-01-13
As fintech pitches itself as the future of consumer financial services to bankers, regulators, legislative staffers and journalists, it's not enough to claim that innovations are better. We nontechies want an explanation why, in layman's terms.

Read More from: BankThink

2016-01-13
Arch Coal Inc.’s bankruptcy filing has some citizens groups are worried about its ability to clean up pollution at its Wyoming mines, Daily Bankruptcy Review

Read More from: WSJ.com: Bankruptcy Beat