Bankruptcy Blogs

Lawyers for ComputerLand Corp. founder William Millard, now a Cayman Islands resident in his 80s, could interview the leader of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands as part of Mr. Millard’s challenge of a tax bill of more than $100 million.

Granted, journalists can be scavengers; they're nosey and can be positively annoying when they want information. But why does a whole group of crypto-anarchists and technologists think they have the moral high ground?

Join us Tuesday, March 11, at 10:30a.m. to hear The Wall Street Journal’s Joseph Checkler discuss the year ahead in bankruptcy with Steve Zelin of The Blackstone Group.

On Thursday in Brooklyn, N.Y., Cengage Learning Inc. plans to ask for a judge’s final blessing for a reorganization plan that would cut $4 billion of the textbook publisher’s debt.

The proposal gives a majority of the company’s equity to a group of senior lenders and, crucially, provides junior creditors $225 million in cash or stock.

New innovations in data security, including chip technology, tokenization and end-to-end encryption, are adding even more technologically advanced fraud prevention tools to our nation's payments infrastructure.