Bankruptcy Blogs

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Wendy Williams does her part to keep Twinkies alive, and boy-band mogul Lou Pearlman’s trustee must be feeling larger than life. Also this week, Jefferson, County, Ala., scores a run against J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. on its dealings with Houston Astros owner Jim Crane.

The Cordray appointment may make bank compliance issues a focus of this year's presidential campaign. Bankers should not think of this potential outcome as good news.

Frivolously adding armor to combat planes makes the aircraft difficult to control and less effective. Weighting down banks with ill-conceived risk mitigation strategies and regulations serves the interests of neither individual banks nor the banking system as a whole.

After hearing that Eastman Kodak Co.

Judge Jed S. Rakoff this week denied the request of Irving Picard, the trustee of Bernard L.