Bankruptcy Blogs

Want Tellers to Cross-Sell? Help Them Make a Quality Offer

05/16/13

Analyze data to tailor offers and draft sales pitches that customers, particularly those visiting branches, will have a hard time refusing.

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Game Over for TimeGate

05/16/13
TimeGate Studios Inc.
A still from Section 8: Prejudice

A Texas bankruptcy has pulled the plug on TimeGate Studios Inc.’s short-lived restructuring bid, an

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JPMorgan Gets an Information Edge Over Activist Shareholders

05/16/13

Receiving Wide Coverage ...

Aw Mom, JPMorgan Again? Yes, kids, but today's meatloaf is spicy. Broadridge, the firm counting JPMorgan shareholder votes on the resolution to sever the CEO and chairman jobs, has stopped providing running tallies to the investors sponsoring the proposal, the Times reports. Broadridge says it did so at the behest of SIFMA, the Wall Street trade group, whose members are the firm's clients. SIFMA told the Times that "one of its working...

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Brown-Vitter Bill: A Capital Fix for Troubled Markets

05/16/13

The common-sense steps taken in the bill will help even the playing field between community banks and big financial firms.

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The Daily Docket: Goldman to Lend Arcapita Up to $350M

05/16/13

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. beat out Fortress Investment Group LLC for the right to lend Arcapita Bank up to $350 million that would ease the Bahraini investment firm out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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More Must Be Done to Promote Homeownership for All

05/15/13

The banking industry must create sustainable mortgage products that will work for responsible families of modest means. We also need a proactive homeownership policy from the federal government.

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Art Sales Will Boost Stanford Fraud Victims’ Recovery

05/15/13
Photo courtesy of Heritage Auctions
Dale Chihuly’s cobalt chandelier will be sold at auction next week.

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Do you have too much debt to handle? Know the signs…

05/15/13

Debt isn’t always bad, but be careful about taking on too much… It gets a bad rap, but debt is not necessarily always a bad thing. In the business world, Fortune 500 companies sell off debt in the form of bonds to raise capital and expand operations. They create jobs in the process. In the [...]

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Split Chairman and CEO Roles? It Depends

05/15/13

The heart of the issue is not who holds what titles, but whether a company’s governance processes are functioning as they should.

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