South Australia’s sky-high electricity prices have forced an Adelaide plastics recycling business to shut its doors, costing 35 workers their jobs, its managing director says. Plastics Granulating Services (PGS), based in Kilburn in Adelaide’s inner-north, said it had seen its monthly power bills increase from $80,000 to $180,000 over the past 18 months. Managing…
Facts Background Supreme Court decision Facts A Spanish company developed a building in Valencia. In 2005 it sold one of the flats in the building to an individual. In 2009 the developer registered the deed of dissolution with the Companies Registry. After the company was dissolved, the individual found defects in the flat’s flooring. She…
Australian companies hunting for bespoke debt deals are finding willing lenders in the Americas, where low interest rates have prompted investors to venture further abroad for yield. With nearly 40 per cent of the world’s bonds yielding less than 1 per cent, North American insurers thirsty for income are ramping up their lending to companies…
Put aside whatever shred of healthcare decency the Senate happens to be ripping out at the moment and take a look at Better, a startup helping people deal with out-of-network medical bills. The startup has just pledged 100 percent of its revenue towards relieving those stuck in serious medical debt at least until this fall. Better…
MUMBAI: State Bank of India has mandated bankruptcy specialist Alvarez & Marsal to act as interim resolution professional to reorganise Ruias-owned Essar Steel that defaulted on Rs 44,000 crore debt, said two people familiar with the development. The nation’s biggest lender has also hired Ernst & Young, Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers to handle the insolvency proceedings…
He said that earlier, the group had allowed all of its subsidiaries to manage their own businesses, but now the company had |restructured so that all opera-tions are managed by six group executives. Under the new system, there will be six business units. The unit overseen by the chief operating officer will be responsible for…
The RBI has reportedly asked banks to make steep increases in the provisioning for bad loans that are referred to bankruptcy courts. This might appear tough: the banks will have to find something like an additional Rs50,000 crore this year and a like amount next year, at a time when they, for the most part,…
The rules seemed clear. After anger at how EU taxpayers had to meet the cost of bank rescues during the financial crisis, any more failing lenders would have to be dealt with, as far as possible, by their own shareholders and creditors. But the 17bn of Italian government money committed at the weekend to deal…
With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) asking banks to take defaulters through the insolvency process, the role of insolvency professionals has assumed importance and people are rushing to clear the qualifying examination. Sources said bankers last week met to decide on the appointment such professionals, considering the number of cases that…
Greece might have a long way to go to recover from its devastating crisis, but things are finally starting to look up after the countrys creditors agreed a deal to unlock the next stage of its bailout programme and help it avoid a default. Prices for the governments few publicly-traded bonds hit their highest level…