Bankruptcy Blogs

Financial System's Guardians Give Cyberattacks Short Shrift

06/13/13

In addition to addressing the risks that caused the last crisis, the Financial Stability Oversight Council should be comparing notes about cyber threats with the national security agencies.

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Should Bank Regulators Do FDA-Style Product Vetting?

06/12/13

Law professor Saule T. Omarova is suggesting regulators require pre-market approval for complex financial instruments like derivatives to curb systemic risk in global markets. How effective would such a program be?

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The Daily Docket: Exide Bondholders Want Leverage

06/12/13

Bondholders are circling Exide Technologies Inc. looking for leverage in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case that is shaping into a fast-moving revamp of the global battery business. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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Transition Period for Swaps Rules; Dimon Fights Back

06/12/13

Receiving Wide Coverage ...

Dodd-Frank's Swap Trading Transition: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has sent letters to some of America's biggest banks granting them a two-year transition period to comply with a Dodd-Frank requirement that could curtail swap trading, Reuters reports. The rule, the wire service says, "attempts to keep certain risky trading activity out of entities that receive government backstops, such as deposit insurance or access to the Federal Reserve's discount window."...

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Tough Questions for the St. Louis Fed

06/12/13

The Fed’s research raises more questions than it answers, among them: Is the researcher right when he says the great bankers he interviewed could run a bank successfully anywhere, anytime?

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Debtor Can Pay Tax Sale Redemption Price in Chapter 13 Plan, in Northern District of Georgia

06/12/13

In In re Francis, Ch. 13 Case No. 12-73183, 2013 Bankr. LEXIS 923 (Bankr. N.D. Ga. March 13, 2013) (J.

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Sly Stone Royalty Fight Moves to Bankruptcy Court

06/11/13
Sony Music Entertainment
Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone

Sly Stone’s former manager says he placed his businesses into bankruptcy to block a bid by the

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Waiting for Uniform Derivatives Rules Is a Losing Proposition

06/11/13

Banks are incessantly lobbying the CFTC to hold off on cross-border derivatives rules until other countries write their own regulations. But that could take longer than the next crisis.

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