Bankruptcy Blogs

Money market funds possess trillions of dollars of short-term institutional investor funds. Now the SECÂ's proposed rule change for the industry may give banks an opportunity to attract institutional depositors with cash management offerings.

Join us Tuesday, February 11, at 10:45 a.m. to hear The Wall Street Journal’s Stephanie Gleason moderate a “year ahead in bankruptcy” discussion with bankruptcy and restructuring experts Steve Zelin of The Blackstone Group and Lisa Donahue of AlixPartners LLP.

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Lawsky Probe: Benjamin Lawsky certainly stays busy. New York's top financial regulator Â-- who recently oversaw a few days of Bitcoin hearings Â-- has launched a probe into whether banks manipulated the foreign exchange market. The Department of Financial Services head has requested documentation from more than a dozen banks, including Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Lloyds Banking Group and Standard Chartered, to investigate. Lawsky, of course, isn't the only one...

Jack Butler, a bankruptcy lawyer who was instrumental in the 2013 merger of American Airlines and US Airways, is jumping to a firm specializing in liquidations, real estate and private equity after more than two decades at law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.