Bankruptcies, debt agreements and personal insolvency agreements all rose in the final quarter of 2017, according to new data. The Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA) has reported that there were 7,578 new personal insolvencies in the December quarter up 7.4 per cent on the previous year. Breaking down the numbers, those 7,578 insolvencies included: 4,029…
A director of a company that took advantage of men suffering sexual dysfunction has been declared bankrupt after failing to pay the consumer watchdog’s legal costs. Jacov Vaisman is the former director of the Advanced Medical Institute (AMI) and NRM, the company that bought AMI and continued to operate the business. The Australian Competition and…
The poor standard of record-keeping will make the investigation more difficult, the Insolvency Service saidCARILLION The investigation into potential misconduct in the running of Carillion will be expanded to look at up to 169 directors across the failed construction company, MPs have been told. At the initial hearing of a Commons business and work and…
The combination of flatlining wages and big mortgages is driving up the number of people filing for bankruptcy. The Australian Financial Security Authority has revealed that bankruptcies and private debt agreements nationally and in WA are at their highest since the global financial crisis. But figures from NAB yesterday confirmed a different story for the…
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The number of individuals in the UK declaring insolvency has increased for the second year running, with a return to levels 99,196 people not seen since the post-2008 recession. Rates rose by 9.4% over the course of the year from a figure of 90,657 people in 2016. Since the economic recovery following the the 2008…
A recent court order is likely to impact the way resolution plans for stressed companies are being designed. The Mumbai bench of the National Company Law Tribunal held that a plan that envisages resolution of only some assets while excluding others is not acceptable. The NCLT said so in the case of Roofit Industries that…
Image copyright Reuters For 10 years, the Carillion pension trustees tried to get the company to pay in more money to the scheme without success. There was no agreement from 2008 onwards between the company and the trustees about the correct level of contribution over that decade and according to Robin Ellison, the chair of…
Jim Pickard and Josephine Cumbo January 30, 2018 The head of Britains accountancy watchdog has been grilled about its failure to spot growing problems at Carillion, the collapsed construction company. Appearing before MPs at the start of an investigation into Carillions demise, Stephen Haddrill, chief executive of the Financial Reporting Council, rejected accusations that the…