Payless Shoes insolvency slugs Vocus-owned Primus Telecom for $50000 – CRN Australia

Vocus-owned telecommunications provider Primus Telecoms is owed $51,000 by failed retailer Payless Shoes, which is being liquidated with the loss of up to 730 jobs. Phone and data provider Primus is not the only tech company facing a haircut from the insolvency  human resources software vendor HR3 is owed $29,000, solution provider Fusion5 Business Solutions…

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Greece’s European creditors suspend debt relief measures – Daily Mail

By Associated Press Published: 04:35 +11:00, 15 December 2016 | Updated: 04:35 +11:00, 15 December 2016 e-mail ATHENS, Greece (AP) European creditors have pulled a recently announced debt relief package for Greece in protest at subsequent budget spending measures by Athens. Greek stocks fell sharply Wednesday and the government’s borrowing rates jumped higher as investors…

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Ukraine’s largest bank hits back at nationalisation reports – Reuters

Dec 14 Ukraine’s largest lender, Privatbank, said on Wednesday that reports it will be nationalised were attempts to create panic and destabilise the political situation in the country. Local media has speculated that Privatbank, which is part-owned by billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky, could be privatised if it does not meet a year-end deadline for Ukraine banks…

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Greek shares tank as eurozone suspends debt relief – Bristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)

ATHENS, Greece (AP) Greek shares have fallen sharply while the interest rates charged on Greek bonds jumped higher after the country’s European creditors pulled a debt relief package announced only last week in protest at subsequent budget measures by Athens. … Read the full article at: http://www.heraldcourier.com/workittricities/business_wire/greek-shares-tank-as-eurozone-suspends-debt-relief/article_4eee7508-66e7-575b-bdd3-7c594b1ef421.html

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Ukraine’s largest bank hits back at nationalisation reports – Daily Mail

By Reuters Published: 03:20 +11:00, 15 December 2016 | Updated: 03:20 +11:00, 15 December 2016 e-mail KIEV, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s largest lender, Privatbank, said on Wednesday that reports it will be nationalised were attempts to create panic and destabilise the political situation in the country. Local media has speculated that Privatbank, which is…

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ASIC reports on corporate insolvencies – LeapRate

ASIC today published its annual overview of corporate insolvencies based on statutory reports lodged by external administrators for the 201516 financial year. Report 507 Insolvency statistics: External administrators reports (July 2015 to June 2016) is ASICs eighth report and provides information on the nature of corporate insolvencies, supplementing the monthly statistics that ASIC publishes on…

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Activists and borrowers call on Obama administration to provide debt relief to defrauded students – Inside Higher Ed

Having unexpectedly found itself handing off the baton to a Republican administration in January, the U.S. Department of Education is racing to finish a slate of Obama administration priorities. But few of the department’s remaining tasks are as daunting as processing thousands of debt-relief claims filed by former students of closed for-profit colleges. Since the…

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Canberra man who nearly conned $1.4 million loan from NAB jailed – The Sydney Morning Herald

He had called himself Frank Divido. It was under that name prosecutors said Frank John Fischetti, 54, befriended a printing shop owner and began to fabricate an image of wealth and business acumen, at one stage helped by a fake contract for a $3.19 million boat he scanned there. The shop owner went on to transfer $195,000 in four transactions…

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