News Topic: CreditSlips

Mitu and I have been posting jointly of late about restructuring options for PDVSA and Venezuela . ... Read full article

The US Trustee's office just prevailed in a sanctions case against a law firm with a most creative fee scam.  To oversimplify (and leave out certain other issues of bad behavior), the law firm steered debtors who owned cars in which they had zero ... Read full article

The CFPB is out with its Strategic Plan for FY 2018-2022 , also known (without any apparent irony) as The Five Year Plan.  Lots to chew on in this doozy, starting with this: ... Read full article

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A few days ago, Mark and I put up a post on the possibilities of using Chapter 15 bankruptcy for Venezuela's state-owned company, PDVSA.  In response, we received a number of terrific comments, both via email and in the comments section. One of the ... Read full article

Donald Trump came into office promising, among other things, to “drain the swamp” and get rid of all that corruption.  One year in, how are things looking in terms of swamp draining?  The following is based on work with my super co author, Stephen Choi , ... Read full article

Twelve senators have just written ... Read full article

Slipsters/Slips Guest Bloggers Kathleen Engel, Dalié Jiménez, Patricia McCoy and I submitted an amicus brief (with numerous other co-signors) to the DC Circuit in support of appellant Leandra English in English v. Trump , which, despite its caption is not ... Read full article

Mitu Gulati and Mark Weidemaier ... Read full article

I have a new (short!) paper out,  Bankruptcy's Lorelei:  The Dangerous Allure of Financial Institution Bankruptcy .  The paper, which builds off of some Congressional testimony from 2015, makes the case that proposals for resolving large, ... Read full article

I just had the pleasure of reading Duke Law Professor Sara Sternberg Greene's paper  The Bootstrap Trap .  I highly recommend it for anyone who is interested in the intersection of consumer credit and poverty law. ... Read full article

A couple of weeks ago there appeared a  remarkable memo written by Mick Mulvaney  (who claims to be the Acting Director of the CFPB) to the CFPB staff. ... Read full article

Most of us Credit Slips ters enjoyed an absolutely fabulous symposium over the weekend celebrating the illustrious career of one of our own, Jay Westbrook . The Texas Law Review  will publish a selection of several of the papers presented at the symposium ... Read full article

This Tuesday I'm going to be testifying about "fintechs" before the House Financial Services Committee's Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.  My written testimony on this impossibly broad topic is here . ... Read full article

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Among the multiple offline comments that I received on our post yesterday was a piece of information updating us on the Lerrick nomination and the drama with the Irish SPV that held Argentine debt (the one where a local children's charity was a ... Read full article

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