Bankruptcy Blogs

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, we find some commonalities with the characters of “Downton Abbey,” and Rhythm & Hues’ bankruptcy isn’t stopping a computer-generated tiger from being the “life” of the party. Also, the firm’s bankruptcy is grinding the gears of visual-effects artists who say they’ve been working in deteriorating conditions.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. responds to two recent posts that cited its underbanked survey results.

U.S. hedge funds will find out Friday whether they won or lost a preliminary round of the international fight over how to divide $7.3 billion raised in the bankruptcy liquidation of Nortel Networks Corp. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story here.

Banks have convinced policymakers, regulators and sometimes the courts that new regulations might be too expensive. However, the point of public intervention is to induce banks to take account of costs they impose on others.