Bankruptcy Blogs

Creating deeper bonds with business clients can help banks win market share. But organizational inertia and sales managers who are quick to fall back on old habits often hobble this approach, according to consultant Duncan Banfield.

While bankers' reputation as the unquestioned authorities on financial services may be changing, the importance of face-to-face interactions has not lessened, according to contributor Dave Martin.

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Living Wills Need Do-Over: Eleven big banks remain dangerously unprepared to wind down in the event of a crisis, according to U.S. regulators. "The Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said bankruptcy plans submitted by big banks make 'unrealistic or inadequately supported' assumptions and 'fail to make, or even to identify, the kinds of changes in firm structure and practices that would be necessary to enhance the prospects for' an...

A bankruptcy court in Pennsylvania recently held that trade creditors who supplied goods to a debtor prior to its bankruptcy filing were not entitled to administrative priority status under Bankruptcy Code section 503(b)(9) because the goods were “received by the debtor” at the time they were placed on the vessel at the port overseas more than 20 days before the debtor’s bankruptcy filing, although the debtor took possession of the goods within the 20 day period.  In re World Imports, Ltd. — B.R. —-, 2014 WL 2750258 (Bankr. E.D. Pa., June 18, 2014).