A NEW poll revealed that almost half (45 per cent) of Scots are unsure of where to access free help with their debt. CAP National Director for Scotland Emma Jackson. Picture: CAP Moreover, of those worried about their personal finances, over two-in-five (43 per cent) say that the Covid-19 pandemic has made it harder to…
Details{{featured_button_text}} CHARLESTON Five more Coles County residents have tested positive for COVID-19, it was announced Saturday. The new cases of the disease caused by the coronavirus brought the countys total since the start of the pandemic to 5,435, a news release from the Coles County Health Department said. Coles County continuing COVID-19 vaccination process, has…
DetailsJames Arthur admits he was 300k in debt from betting on football matches despite insisting he didn’t have a gambling problem By Natasha Hooper For Mailonline Published: 05:53 AEDT, 14 March 2021 | Updated: 06:14 AEDT, 14 March 2021 48 View comments James Arthur has admitted he was up to 300,000 in debt due to…
DetailsCLOSE Third stimulus check is in the COVID relief bill, who gets the $1400 stimulus check is settled, but the $1.9 trillion dollar bill isn’t quite law yet. USA TODAY WASHINGTON Tucked into the massive $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill signed into law by President Joe Biden on Thursday was a provision aimed at benefiting…
DetailsFormer Sargon Capital founder and CEO Phillip Kingston has broken his silence on a cascade of extraordinary events that put into receivership the high-profile superannuation fintech a year ago following actions by one of its creditors a Chinese state-owned insurance company China Taiping (~A$100 million). Phillip Kingston. Source: Facebook Sargon Capital had reportedly been attempting…
DetailsThe fall-out from a multi-billion dollar fintech insolvency is being felt in the steel industry which has thousands of workers across Australia, including in Ballarat. Greensill Capital, a UK-based financial services company set up by former Queensland entrepreneur Lex Greensill to offer supply chain financing, entered into administration on March 8. The former foreign minister…
DetailsThe Greensills have snapped up more than $40m of land in the Bundaberg region over the last five years as they expanded their agricultural operations into one of the biggest in the state. The acquisitions have allowed the Greensills to expand their broadacre production of sweet potatoes, peanuts and cane to gain lucrative supply contracts…
DetailsA High Court judge has refused to approve a personal insolvency arrangement (PIA) for a golf shop director which would have seen a 198,000 debt secured on the shop in Birr, Co Offaly, written down to 80,000. Alan McGee, a personal insolvency practitioner (PIP) acting on behalf of Michael Horan, of Rapemills, Banagher, sought approval…
DetailsThe court held that restructuring plans, introduced by the 2020 Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act(CIGA), are ‘insolvency proceedings’ for the purposes of the Lugano Convention. As the plan fell within the bankruptcy exception in the Convention, the UK court had jurisdiction despite an exclusive jurisdiction clause in favour of the Swiss courts. Restructuring plans fall…
DetailsMichigan Legacy Credit Union CEO Carma Peters was alarmed by the volume of online bets placed by her institution’s members within the first weeks of legal online betting in Michigan. In less than two months since the Jan. 22 launch in the state, Peters said 187 members made more than 1,200 transactions with online betting…
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