Mobile phone providers need to act more responsibly to help customers avoid debt, starting with letting them set their own monthly bill caps, a charity has said. Citizens Advice has labelled mobile phone companies the worst private sector debt collectors, and said customers should be allowed to take their own steps to limit usage to…
Financial panics have an unnerving tendency to coincide with the annual World Economic Forum in Davos. Bloomberg by Jeremy Warner The trouble with the World Economic Forum is that it has a propensity to become something of an echo chamber. Rather than promoting a plurality of views, ideas and sentiments, the mood tends to get focused into…
American Express Co., the biggest credit-card issuer by purchases, said fourth-quarter profit fell 38 percent as expenses rose and the company took a restructuring charge. The shares slid in extended trading. Net income dropped to $899 million, or 89 cents a share, from $1.45 billion, or $1.39, a year earlier, the New York-based company said…
A biodiesel plant listed on the Australian Securities Exchange says the federal government is partly to blame for it collapsing into voluntary administration. Australian Renewable Fuels Limited, based in Barnawartha in north-east Victoria, appointed voluntary administrators on Thursday. Melissa Humann, David McEvoy and Nicholas Martin from PPB advisory are now managing the companys assets. A…
WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–EIG Pacific Holdings Ltd. (the Offeror), a Cayman Islands limited company and subsidiary of Harbour Energy Ltd. (Harbour Energy), today provided an update regarding its pending tender offers (the Tender Offers) for the outstanding senior notes (the Notes) of Pacific Exploration & Production Corporation (TSX: PRE) (BVC: PREC) (Pacific E&P or the Company). On…
THE magnitude of yesterday’s revelations of a Coast company director holidaying in Las Vegas days after his company entered liquidation was quickly apparent. After the Daily revealed prominent Mooloolaba restaurateur Todd Young’s company, Todd Young Investments Pty Ltd, which through a trust operated Bella Venezia at Mooloolaba, had gone into liquidation and days later he’d…
Introduction Consolidated code Comment Introduction No single umbrella legislation governs insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings in India. Instead, there is a slew of legislation governing the legal framework, including: the Companies Act 2013; the Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act 1985; the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act 1993; …
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Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan presents himself as a bipartisan, pragmatic accountant. His self-proclaimed nickname is One Tough Nerd. He has no trouble upsetting Democrats and Republicans on the same day. Related: Flint water crisis: emails reveal governor Snyder informed of problems a year ago He talks about Michigan residents as his customers and tries…