Bankruptcy Blogs

What Engagement Banking Needs Is Less Engagement

09/12/13

Want consumers to engage with your financial firm? Don’t try to turn their finances into a flashy smartphone game; find new ways to do their banking for them.

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Since Lehman, the Financial Sector Has Changed - for the Better

09/12/13

With the general push for more capital, liquidity, regulatory knowledge, and tools, the financial sector is safer and more competitive.

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Why Former Investors Despair of Returning to Mortgages

09/12/13

Through bitter experience, bond purchasers learned about the moral hazard embedded in private residential mortgage-backed securities and their grossly inadequate legal protections.

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Mortgage Demand Weakens; Europe Approves New Regulator

09/12/13

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New EU Regulator: Over strong German objections, the European Union went ahead Thursday with plans to create supranational agency empowered to regulate the continent's banking industry and shutter failing banks the New York Times reported. Approval of the so-called single bank resolution system represents a huge step on the road to a European banking union. Creation of such a powerful agency was important enough that it should have required changes to the...

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The Daily Docket: Potential Bidding War Brews for Furniture Brands

09/12/13

A potential bidding war is brewing for Furniture Brands International Inc., the big furniture manufacturer that filed for Chapter 11 earlier this week with a plan to sell most of its assets to Oaktree Capital Management. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street Journal.

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Are Amendments to Bankruptcy Schedules Proof of Perjury?

09/11/13

amendments to bankruptcy paperworkMy Bankruptcy Law Network colleague

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Fed Insiders Bolster New Film Slamming Easy-Money Policies

09/11/13

Filmmaker Jim Bruce has produced a devastating documentary that uses Fed veterans, such as Peter Fisher, to explain how the central bank pumps up asset bubbles.

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