Bankruptcy Blogs

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Teresa Giudice will serve time in the prison that was the setting for “Orange Is the New Black,” and the Backstreet Boys settled with former boy-band mogul Lou Pearlman. Also, Girls Gone Wild made a settlement with the Hottest Girl in America 2010.

Instead of trying to stop companies from offering payday loans and check cashing services to lower-income households, we should encourage more competitors Â-- including banks Â-- to enter this space.

Receiving Wide Coverage ... Prepping for Stress Tests: The Financial Times and Wall Street Journal each serves up a curtain raiser on next year's Fed-conducted stress tests, playing off the instructions the Fed released on Thursday, as well as the European Central Bank's stress test results that are due to be released on Sunday. Among the stressful scenarios to which U.S. banks will be theoretically tested are oil prices rising to $110 per barrel, and increasedÂ...

Small banks and credit unions should work together to put pressure on legislators and regulators to reduce unnecessary and cumbersome regulations.