Bankruptcy Blogs

Can You Afford The Cost Of Waiting?

11/10/13

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Nearly two years passed between my initial meeting with the client and her actual decision to file bankruptcy.

Usually, that has no unpredictable consequences.

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Credit Slips Now on Twitter

11/09/13

Credit Slips now has a Twitter feed. You can find us @CreditSlips on Twitter (as well as from the button to the right). We'll be trying to put our posts up there as well as retweeting from the Credit Slips authors. We also have added a button that will allow you to tweet individual Credit Slips posts on your own Twitter feed.

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Bankruptcy For Big Banks?

11/09/13

Hundreds of billions of bailout dollars later, the governmentbankruptBANK?

is saying sure, let the big banks go bust, Chapter 7 bankruptcy,

like any other failed business.

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Fed's Dudley: Use Deferred Comp to Bolster Capital in Tough Times

11/08/13

New York Fed President William Dudley is suggesting that regulators could force banks to withhold a big chunk of executives' annual pay and then use that money to fill holes in capital when trouble hits.

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How to Build (and Leverage) Customer Loyalty; Risk Reflux

11/08/13

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week.

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The Broke and the Beautiful: Playing Nice Edition

11/08/13

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, DMX promises to play nice, and Tori Spelling says she’s lost some money but isn’t broke. Also, Cole Hamels and Aaron Shea scored a touchdown in bankruptcy court.

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Time to Grab Extreme Risk by the Tail

11/08/13

Traditional risk management works well when only profits are at stake. To protect against the dangers that can sink an institution, a new approach is needed.

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Enough About Twitter's IPO Already; Is Forex the New Libor?

11/08/13

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The Bird Is the Word: The Morning Scan is as sick of hearing about the Twitter IPO as you probably are, but it still dominates business news pages this morning. The social network's shares jumped nearly 75% on their first day of trading, in sharp contrast to the Facebook debacle last year. Hence the FT's take: "Tech industry enters new era with Twitter's IPO success. … The shadow of Facebook's troubled IPO...

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The Daily Docket: Lehman Sues Credit Suisse Over $1.2B Claim

11/08/13
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The team winding down what is left of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

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