Bankruptcy Blogs

The Daily Docket: Hybrid Tech Boosts Fisker Bid

01/13/14

The duel over Fisker Automotive Inc. continued to heat up Monday, when a company connected to Hong Kong’s Richard Li boosted its bid for the failed maker of luxury hybrid vehicles. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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The Daily Docket: Hybrid Tech Boosts Fisker Bid

01/13/14

The duel over Fisker Automotive Inc. continued to heat up Monday, when a company connected to Hong Kong’s Richard Li boosted its bid for the failed maker of luxury hybrid vehicles. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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Bank P-to-P Payments Should Be a Whole Lot Easier

01/13/14

No matter how streamlined my finances have become, there is one regular nuisance: sending money to and from family or friends without the friction that requires recipients to provide hard-to-remember information like account numbers and routing numbers.

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Morning Scan: We've Lost All of Our Leverage Ratio

01/13/14

Receiving Wide Coverage ...

Basel Leverage Rule Softened: Banks around the globe scored a victory Sunday when the Basel committee agreed to soften its proposed leverage ratio. Specific changes to the international proposal affect the treatment of certain derivatives exposures, some off-balance sheet activities, and the netting of repos. Reuters reports that there is still no agreement on the final level of leverage that will be allowed. The Journal notes that Sunday's change follows last year's...

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What Bank Customers Want: Introducing a New Series

01/13/14

WeÂ're asking customers from different demographics to describe what they are looking for from their financial services providers.

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A profile of the typical person who files bankruptcy

01/13/14

A five year study of the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act conducted by The Institute For Financial Literacy paints a picture of who files bankruptcy, and why.  Do you see yourself in this picture?  Mirror Mirror on the wall; who's the filer of us all?

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Data Breaches: Target, Neiman Marcus

01/11/14

Let's be really clear about what most identity theft is about:  it's about payments data.  Identity theft is first and foremost a payments fraud problem.

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The Behavioral Economics of Bitcoin

01/11/14

I'm going to wade into unchartered Slips waters today and head into Bitcoinland. I've been trying to understand Bitcoin from a payment systems perspective, where it has an interesting problem and solution:  double spending.  The lesson in all of this is how Bitcoin has a sort of built in seniorage--payments are never free. Currently Bitcoin builds in its costs through inflation, which is not particularly transparent, but that will ultimately change to being more transparent--and salient-- transaction fees.

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Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code Preempts Florida Dealer Statutes

01/11/14

By: Andrew Ziemianski

St. Johns Law Student

American Bankruptcy Institute Staff

 

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