Bankruptcy Blogs

Last week, I was reminded about the importance of taking care of Chapter 13 business early.  I got stuck in court for 4 hours waiting to have a 45 second conversation with the Chapter 13 trustee.

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Central Banks Warn Private Sector to Act: The world's central banks have done their job; now it's time for political leaders to do theirs. That's the message delivered by the Bank for International Settlements, colloquially known as the central bankers' bank, in the wake of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's comments that the Fed may slow its bond-buying program later this year. "Cheap and plentiful central bank money had merely bought time,"...

Two American Banker staffers who cover mergers and acquisitions have a confession to make. We sometimes get so enmeshed in the arcane numbers behind bank deals that we overlook what really makes them tick: the human element.

Given the robustness of trade in some large urban areas, it is entirely possible to earn a living from buying and selling bitcoin.

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Lawsky Strikes Again: Benjamin Lawsky has certainly had a busy week. The New York state regulator followed up his $10 million Deloitte settlement with a $250 million settlement with Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ over money-laundering allegations on Thursday. True to form, the settlement upstages an $8.5 million fine the Japanese bank paid to federal regulators last December. (Scan readers will recall that last year, Lawsky reached a $340 million money-laundering settlement with...