Bankruptcy Blogs

The Bankruptcy Ethics Task Force's Final Report

06/03/13

Thanks to Bob and Credit Slips for the warm welcome.  In April, after two long years, we completed the American Bankruptcy Institute Ethics Task Force's Final
Report. This week we will be guest blogging about “bankruptcy ethics” and
discussing many of the issues we confronted as Reporters.

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Welcome to Lois Lupica and Nancy Rapoport

06/02/13

Credit Slips is very pleased that Professor Lois Lupica and Dean Nancy Rapoport will be joining us for a few days. Both of these names are probably already well known to many of our readers. Lois is the Maine Law Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Maine and a past guest blogger on Credit Slips.

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When Can Bankruptcy Help You Pay Taxes?

06/02/13
What do YOU owe Uncle Sam?

What do YOU owe Uncle Sam?

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Alternative Financial Services Industry: Never Heard Of It?

06/01/13

Kraft Commercial

The Alternative Financial Services Industry (AFSI).  Never heard of it?

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Sympathy for Liberty Reserve; Regulatory Reform Reconsidered; Portents in Payments

05/31/13

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

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Coda Short Circuits on Reporting Insider Pay

05/31/13
Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press
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The Broke and the Beautiful: Joe Francis Redux Edition

05/31/13

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Joe Francis speaks to Bankruptcy Beat. Also, an appellate court tosses a legal judgment against the Girls Gone Wild founder.

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The Libor Scandal: What's Next?

05/31/13

By Evan Sypek

The London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) is calculated daily by the British Banking Association (BBA) and published by Thomson Reuters. The rates are calculated by surveying the interbank borrowing costs of a panel of banks and averaging them to create an index of 15 separate Libor rates for different maturities (ranging from overnight to one year) and currencies. The Libor rate is used to calculate interest rates in an estimated $350 trillion worth of transactions worldwide.

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The Libor Scandal: What’s Next?

05/31/13

By Evan Sypek

The London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) is calculated daily by the British Banking Association (BBA) and published by Thomson Reuters. The rates are calculated by surveying the interbank borrowing costs of a panel of banks and averaging them to create an index of 15 separate Libor rates for different maturities (ranging from overnight to one year) and currencies. The Libor rate is used to calculate interest rates in an estimated $350 trillion worth of transactions worldwide.

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Google P-to-P Feature a Wake-Up Call for Banks

05/31/13

The threat posed by Google will put the onus on banks to deliver the ultimate person-to-person payments experience, which only they can provide.

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