The Vocational Education and Training (VET) Ombudsman has recommended the re-credit of VET FEE-HELP debts following the closure of investigations into 5,838 complaints made to the ombudsman, as at 31 March 2020. The total value of this debt was $94.2 million, including $78.6 million in tuition fees and $15.6 million in loan fees, amidst what…
Need to know CHOICE is calling on banks to cap interest rates at 10% to stop the spread of long-term credit card debt High-interest cards can have you paying back nearly ten times more in interest than low-rate cards over the long term We identify the ten nastiest credit cards in Australia There’s a reason…
Dont ignore your credit card debt; try some of these ideas to stay afloat during these uncertain times. (iStock) Americans were already struggling with credit card debt before the spread of coronavirus affected the United States economy. In 2019, Americans collectively had nearly $14 trillion in consumer debt. The average credit card debt among borrowers…
The G20 countries issued a communiqu (14 page / 219KB PDF) in April announcing they had agreed on a coordinated debt suspension approach with a common term sheet for the initiative. Chinas foreign minister Wang Yi confirmed in May that China was pursuing debt relief for developing countries, largely in Africa, through the G20 debt…
(Bloomberg) — Developed nations are considering financial support for a plan to relieve African countries of debt payments without triggering default, according to the United Nations committee steering the initiative. The debt-swap deal would channel payments due this year on international bonds back to the African nations, helping them fight the coronavirus and its economic…
Under the program the Fed can buy any bonds issued by a company that held an investment grade credit rating even one only a notch above junk status on March 22, when the program was announced. Effectively that means the Fed can buy bonds in the so-called fallen angels, or companies whose bonds have been…
Emerging economies have raised more than $83bn through the international bond market since the beginning of April, just weeks after a push by the G20 to offer many poorer nations debt relief. Data collated by the Institute of International Finance, an industry association, show that developing economies are financing their coronavirus-driven deficits by accessing the…
Weve all made financial decisions weve come to regret. Now, lets add another wrinkle to this scenario. What if you knew these purchases were impulsive but you made them anyway? What if you knew bills were piling up but you werent able to bring yourself to look at them, let alone pay them? What if…
Sureeporn Srithong Phone greed imperils land A Phitsanulok woman is warning Thais to repay their debts after the Land Execution Department seized 4 rai of family-owned land in lieu of a phone debt she failed to discharge, throwing the lives of its 11 occupants into uncertainty. Sureeporn Srithong 38, a trader, said she is worried…
On April 15, the Group of Twenty (G20), an international forum that assembles governments, central bank governors, and international organizations, endorsed a suspension of debt service for seventy-six countries from the Global South. This was not quite debt cancellation, but a postponement of payment. Granted on a case-by-case basis, this measure only concerns bilateral debt,…