Bankruptcy Blogs

Florida Panthers Settle Rothstein Clawback

04/09/12
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The Panthers’ Erik Gudbranson, #44, drops down to help goaltender Jose Theodore, #60, defend the net.

Showing that they have some claws, too

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Google's High-Tech Specs Augur a New Vision for Banking

04/09/12

Look ma, no hands (or mag stripe): Sporting eyewear with a built-in camera, a cashier or flea market vendor could accept a payment card simply by looking at it.

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Cramming Funny Fees Onto our Phone Bills: Not so Funny

04/09/12

Two weeks in a row, the Haggler column in the New York Times focused on cramming, one of the most damning and profitable scams in the consumer world.  Cramming is tacking unrequested services onto land line bills and now cell phone bills, such as celebrity gossip news, daily horoscopes, e

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Goldman Has Some Gall Seeking Profit in Housing

04/09/12

Goldman Sachs is raising money for a new fund that will buy home-loan bonds and, it hopes, benefit from an improving real-estate market. This is insane.

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Thank You to Bill Maurer and Stephen Rea

04/09/12

Last week, Credit Slips was fortunate to have the thoughtful insights of Bill Maurer and Stevie Rea on payments systems.

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The Daily Docket: Centerbridge to Take Control of Reddy Ice

04/09/12

Packaged-ice maker Reddy Ice Holdings Inc. is in the final stages of preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with a plan to hand ownership to a hedge fund holding the company’s debt, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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What Will Happen to My Retirement in Bankruptcy?

04/07/12

Retirement Accounts and Bankruptcy One of the biggest myths about bankruptcy is the idea that you will lose your retirement savings if you file. Generally speaking, this is not true. Section 522 of the Bankruptcy Code allows individual retirement accounts (IRAs) up to $1,000,000 to be exempted in bankruptcy. This means that you can file [...]

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Platform, infrastructure, utility?

04/07/12

While we’ve been blogging, Stevie has begun his dissertation fieldwork in Korea. He emailed Bill the other day: “Yesterday I opened a bank account here in Seoul, and conducted the entire interaction in Korean. For some reason, I don't get an ATM card, which is really strange. But in all likelihood I had no idea what the teller was trying to say to me, so I might end up getting a card in the mail next week or something.

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