Bankruptcy Blogs

Deutsche do-over; China on top

03/06/17

The German bank announces another corporate remake plus $8.5 billion in capital raising; China's banking system is now world's largest, although that's not necessarily a good thing.

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New Article from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project: Attorneys’ Fees and Chapter Choice

03/06/17

Many of us on Credit Slips have been part of the Consumer Bankruptcy Project (CBP), a long-term research project studying people who file chapter 7 and 13 bankruptcy. Several years ago, some of us blogged about the writings from the last CBP iteration in 2007.  In 2013, the CBP was relaunched as an ongoing data collection effort.

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Une méthode idéale pour relancer les factures aisément

03/06/17

Les entreprises sont parfois confrontées à des situations complexes, car les clients n’honorent pas les factures. Malheureusement, il est indispensable de les relancer afin de sauvegarder la santé de la structure. Toutefois, cette méthode est particulièrement laborieuse. Une méthode automatique pour gérer les factures impayées de tous vos clients Le logiciel dédié à la relance […]

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Bond Workouts But Were Afraid to Ask

03/05/17

There's a great new paper available on out-of-court restructuring and the Trust Indenture Act.   The New Bond Workouts is up on SSRN.  From the abstract it sounds pretty darn amazing—a new, empirically based analysis of bond restructurings that rediscovers a long-forgotten intercreditor duty of good faith: 

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A Century of... Not Much for Puerto Rico

03/05/17

This is a joint post by Mitu Gulati and Mark Weidemaier   

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Breaking Banks: Blockchain's strides hearten bankers, frustrate purists

03/03/17

Banks have signaled bullishness for blockchain tech. But some say ignorance is leading to ill-informed choices.

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Proficio Bank becomes first Utah failure in six years

03/03/17

Cache Valley Bank in Utah agreed to buy Proficio's deposits and most of its assets.

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Time to cool it in multifamily? Watch the landlords, some lenders warn

03/03/17

Vacancies and rent-slashing have some banks worried that certain markets are overheating, but others say the decline in nonperforming loans is a sign the sector has never been healthier.

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How will stress tests change in the Trump era?

03/03/17

The recent decision by the Federal Reserve Board to exempt banks with less than $250 billion in assets from the qualitative aspects of the CCAR stress tests may be a sign of things to come, says Joo-Yung Lee, head of North American financial institutions at Fitch Ratings.

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