Consultation on updates to insolvency regime – CCH Daily inc Accountancy Live (subscription) (blog)

BIS says the move is in response to recent large corporate failures and developments in Europe to provide businesses with the tools to facilitate company rescue. Business secretary Sajid Javid said: An increasing international focus on company rescue has helped to shift the perceptions of what constitutes best practice; the UK needs to reflect this…

IPA issues first specialist insolvency licence – Accountancy Age

THE IPA has issued its first personal insolvency licence following changes to the Deregulation Act 2015 and Insolvency (Amendment) Act Northern Ireland 2016. The Act opened up the insolvency licensing regime to greater competition and flexibility by catering for practitioners who choose to specialise in either personal or corporate insolvency work. Embracing the changes the…

Deposit Guarantee Fund introduces temporary administration to insolvent bank Mykhailivsky – Interfax

2016-05-24T17:33+02:00 17:33 24.05.2016 The Individuals’ Deposit Guarantee Fund has introduced temporary administration to bank Mykhailivsky (Kyiv) declared insolvent for one month from May 23 to June 22, 2016 inclusively, the fund has said on its website. Temporary administrator is a representative of the fund, Turiy Irkliyenko. The NBU declared the bank insolvent on May 23.…

Insolvency experts call a halt to split mortgage debt deals – Irish Independent

The Association of Personal Insolvency Practitioners (APIP) is meeting today to discuss whether it should continue to do specific types of debt arrangements after legal opinion emerged questioning if these comply with the law. The issue involves personal insolvency arrangements (PIAs) that also include split mortgages. A PIA is the restructuring of mortgage and other…