Ailing Wirecard set to exit DAX index – The Star Online

FRANKFURT: Deutsche Boerse AG will remove Wirecard AG from its benchmark DAX index ahead of a regular quarterly review following the collapse of the payments company amid allegations of accounting fraud. The decision was taken following consultations with market participants conducted after Wirecard declared insolvency in June. The results favoured immediate removal of bankrupt companies…

Government agencies abandoning company wind-ups could cause insolvency tsunami – DynamicBusiness

Fri 14 August 2020 – 6:27 am News By Guest Author Government measures to prop up zombie businesses through the pandemic could actually be harming Australian small businesses, with new data showing company wind-ups have all but ceased in the past quarter. Prushka Fast Debt Recovery revealed through data sourced from court records that the…

Wirecard to Exit DAX Index With Delivery Hero Standing By – Yahoo Canada Finance

(Bloomberg) — Deutsche Boerse AG will remove Wirecard AG from its benchmark DAX index ahead of a regular quarterly reviewfollowing the collapse of the payments company amid allegations of accounting fraud. The decision was taken following consultations with market participants conducted after Wirecard declared insolvency in June. The results favored immediate removal of bankrupt companies…

Bankrupt Alaska airline seeks bonus for its chief executive – The Associated Press

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) The largest rural airline in Alaska has declared bankruptcy and laid off more than a thousand workers but wants to award $250,000 in bonus money to its chief executive and other employees. Anchorage-based RavnAir Group filed the request Tuesday in Delaware bankruptcy court, arguing that the bonuses are justified because of long…

Ravn is bankrupt and selling off assets, but still wants to give chief executive a bonus – Alaska Public Media News

A RavnAir Group Dash-8 plane sits on the tarmac at Anchorages international airport. (Ravn Alaska) Alaskas largest rural airline has declared bankruptcy, laid off more than 1,000 workers and is selling off its assets. But the company still wants to split $250,000 in bonuses between its highly-paid chief executive and other employees. In a filing…

North-East personal insolvency to increase significantly according to research – The Northern Echo

MORE than two-fifths of debt experts questioned by insolvency and restructuring trade body R3 believe that personal insolvency numbers will increase significantly in the next 12 months. Over eight in ten respondents to an R3 survey of its members who work in personal insolvency said they expected the numbers of cases to increase within the…

$13m owed: Ferrari-driving businessman declares bankruptcy – Queensland Times

A former Ferrari-driving businessman has declared bankruptcy after his four companies collapsed within eight months owing about 200 creditors $13 million. Sunshine Coast businessman Gordon Smith, who last year promoted his investment company as being “solid as a rock”, is unable to pay back the creditors of his four property development and wealth businesses, liquidators’…

UK’s new insolvency process should worry company creditors around the world – The Conversation United Kingdom

Virgin Atlantics rescue deal is something of a watershed in how companies can escape insolvency. The deal, which will involve Richard Branson and US hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management injecting US$1.6 billion (1.2 billion) into the airline, uses the new restructuring plans made possible by the UK Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020. While…