Bankruptcy Blogs

Government Looks to Stay Put in Mortgage Market

01/21/15

The federal government's recent decisions to lower annual premiums for new borrowers and reduce down payment requirements suggest it has little interest in making room for private capital in the mortgage market.

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Morning Scan: Obama Plans to Fight for Dodd-Frank; Walmart's Latest Move

01/21/15

Breaking News This Morning ...

Earnings: Fifth Third, U.S. Bancorp Receiving Wide Coverage ...

SOTU from POTUS: Banking and finance played a lead role in President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night. For one, Obama vowed to keep Dodd-Frank intact, saying the law's rules and the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are protecting American consumers. However, Obama avoided direct bashing of banks, declining to take up the same rhetoric as Sen. Elizabeth Warren,...

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The Font of Bankruptcy Jurisdiction Overfloweth in the Most Recent ABLJ

01/20/15

Those fascinated by the logic and limits of the Bankruptcy Clause, Article III courts, and bankruptcy courts power will want to check out the most recent issue of the Amercan Bankruptcy Law Journal (vol. 88, no. 4):

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The Daily Docket: Caesars Restructuring Hits a Snag

01/20/15

Caesars Entertainment Corp . may have violated federal law when it shuffled its casino assets, said a federal judge in a ruling that could complicate the casino company’s efforts to unload $18.4 billion in debts in a bankruptcy restructuring of its largest unit, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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How the Disappearance of Locally-Owned Banks Hurts Rural Economic Development

01/20/15

In preparation for some upcoming projects with sociologists, including my new collaborator Rob Mayer (Utah) and on another project, Alan Burton (UNM Sociology professors and UNM law student), I am beefing up on my sociology research. Alan directed me to a recent article, Restructuring the Financial Industry: The Disappearance of Locally-Owned Traditional Financial Services in Rural America.

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Banks' Five Big Tech Priorities for 2015

01/20/15

Let this be the year that the financial industry stops using the phrase "big data" and remembers that the goal of technology is to make people's lives simpler.

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Morning Scan: U.S., Europe Diverge on Interest Rate Plans; Robot Bank Teller

01/20/15

Breaking News This Morning ...

Earnings: Regions Wall Street Journal

The Journal notes the divergent paths down which the U.S. and European central banks appear to be heading. The Federal Reserve, on the one hand, still appears ready to raise short-term rates, sometime, perhaps, around the middle of this year. The European Central Bank, on the other hand, looks set to engage in a round of quantitative easing, in which it will purchase hundreds of billions of euros...

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Shopping and Dropping

01/20/15

Some thoughts on the recent spate of retail bankruptcies, over at DealB%k.

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