At long last, the World Bank Group's insolvency and debt resolution team has finally released to the public its report on the treatment of the insolvency of micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises, ... Read full article
It is with great sadness that the news reached my desk of the passing of Professor Ian Fletcher of University College London. Ian was a leading international insolvency expert, well known to all of us at Credit Slips , and we extend our condolences to his ... Read full article
Over the past few weeks, at conferences with judges and policymakers in Varna (Bulgaria), Seoul, and Beijing, I've been confronted with a surprising degree of skepticism about personal insolvency systems and fear of opportunistic individuals abusing ... Read full article
Leiden University in the Netherlands has established an impressive strength in insolvency law studies . ... Read full article
Trying to get a handle on the potential for a workable personal bankruptcy procedure in China, I've repeatedly encountered evidence that the most important element might be lacking: attitude. Successful personal insolvency systems around the world ... Read full article
Saudi Arabia's King Salman has approved a new bankruptcy law. { Download Saudi BK final 2-2018 } Commentators have ... Read full article
I thought Credit Slips readers might be interested in using some holiday down-time to catch up on a couple of recent comparative insolvency conferences with particularly cutting-edge presentations, some of which are or will be available for viewing ... Read full article
It seems to me a sign of serious regulatory dysfunction when a government expressly uses bankruptcy law as a means of collection, rather than rescue or at least collective redress, with an aim to treating economic stagnation. ... Read full article
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A new Museum of Failure in Sweden stands as a tribute to the notion that failure is just an opportunity for learning, powering growth and future innovation. I thought no group could appreciate that as much as Credit Slips readers. Europe is still in the ... Read full article
The European Commission has just released its proposal for another Insolvency Directive , finally tackling the very sticky issue of substantive harmonization. ... Read full article
After focusing on the substance of personal bankruptcy laws around the world for years, I'm now convinced that I should instead have been focusing on institutions and procedure. Reports of the first year of the Russian personal bankruptcy process ... Read full article
The government of the United Arab Emirates has announced that it is working on a personal insolvency law (to accompany an imminently forthcoming business restructuring law ). That's the good news. ... Read full article
Unlike the bankruptcy judges in Nortel , who synchronized their trials in a landmark case of cross-border insolvency cooperation, the appellate judges run at their own speed, so results will trickle in here and there. ... Read full article
On Wednesday of this week, the Indian Ministry of Finance released a ... Read full article
This summer saw a flurry of legislative activity in Europe with respect to personal bankruptcy. ... Read full article
