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Survey: Small Rate Increases Could Fuel More Restructurings

01/09/14
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Survey: Small Rate Increases Could Fuel More Restructurings

01/09/14
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The Daily Docket: Dish Pulls LightSquared Bid

01/09/14

Dish Network Corp.’s officially pulling its bid for LightSquared Inc., the telecommunications firm in bankruptcy that has wireless spectrum Dish has been coveting, according to people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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The Daily Docket: Dish Pulls LightSquared Bid

01/09/14

Dish Network Corp.’s officially pulling its bid for LightSquared Inc., the telecommunications firm in bankruptcy that has wireless spectrum Dish has been coveting, according to people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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Beware Zombie Companies in Your Loan Portfolio

01/09/14

Zombie companies have survived on the loose monetary policy of the past few years, designed to help at-risk businesses stay afloat and keep people employed in the wake of the financial crisis. But forthcoming changes will make it hard for these firms to repay their debt.

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Morning Scan: Fed's 2014 Agenda; StanChart Restructures; Bad News for Bitcoin?

01/09/14

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Fed Talks: Recently released Federal Reserve meeting minutes lend a few insights into how the central bank is feeling about its ongoing stimulus program. Readers may recall that the Fed surprised everyone back in December when it elected to slow its bond-buying program by $10 billion a month and, the slow taper is likely to continue. "Officials have suggested a similar cut is the most likely result when the Fed's policy-making committee...

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Glass-Steagall, Dodd-Frank, Volcker: Why All the Eponyms?

01/08/14

The authors of banking law have shown a strong and recurring interest in name-identification with their work. Eponyms can provoke emotional reactions and facilitate the merger of persona and policy.

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Yes, Walmart, You Are in Fact Responsible for What You Sell

01/08/14

The Consumerist posted a story about a man who purchased prepaid debit cards from Walmart only to discover that the debit cards in the package were not Vanilla MasterCards as labeled but instead gift cards from other stores that had virtually no stored value left on the card. OK, so someone had tampered with the cards, and Walmart refunds the money.

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Let's Hope Insurer Lawsuit Makes HUD Rethink 'Disparate Impact'

01/08/14

Requiring HUD to take a stand on how it measures disparate impact may at least remove the anomaly whereby government unwittingly increases the chances a lender gets sued for discrimination.

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The Daily Docket: Deal for LightSquared in Jeopardy

01/08/14

Dish Network Corp.’s  proposed deal to buy LightSquared’s wireless spectrum assets is on the verge of falling apart, a lawyer for LightSquared’s lenders said in bankruptcy court Tuesday. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review via The Wall Street Journal.

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