Bank failures get personal for some CEOs Atlanta Journal Constitution The CEOs filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, meaning that some though not all of their debt will be wiped out, said Jessica Gabel, ...
Senate to remove "backdoor bailouts" from bill Portfolio.com ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - The US Senate Banking Committee will remove a provision from the financial reform bill that bank regulator ...
Financial Reform: Bank Lobby Gathers To Fight Dodd's Bill Huffington Post (blog) Investment banks, hedge funds, student loan firms, coal companies, automakers and credit card companies are among those seeking to influence the reforms. ...
Wall Street guru H. Rodgin Cohen has words for Detroit The Detroit News ... said William K. Black, the former deputy director of the Federal Savings and Loan Corp. and author of "The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One. ...
Fortress Paper to develop biomass power plant in Quebec. Kelowna.com Fortress is paying just $3 million for the Thurso mill, closed by owner Fraser Papers Inc. in June 2009, days before it filed for bankruptcy protection amid ...
New Brunswick to cover debts of troubled Atcon Group Daily Commercial News The Province of New Brunswick will have to pay $50 million to cover loan guarantees made last summer to the Atcon Group of companies, a government lawyer ...
High-end condo developer files for bankruptcy protection WCNC (subscription) Farris claimed the bank wanted out of the construction loan business so badly it paid loan officers incentives for "engineering 'defaults'" that increased ...
Bankers lobby against financial regulatory overhaul Washington Post They were to protest the creation of a new consumer financial protection regulator, to argue that national banks should remain exempt from state consumer ...
Robert Scheer Lame Bill From a Lame Duck Yahoo! Tech His bill rejects a public audit of the Fed, where he would house what remains of the president's proposed consumer protection agency. ...
Harlem condo developer files for bankruptcy Crain's New York Business The remainder of the mortgage expired in July 2009, and the due date for the forbearance on that loan was Wednesday. We worked diligently with the bank, ...
Hutchison countersues in $4.8 million lawsuit Knoxville News Sentinel Hutchison's press release tonight also alleges that documents relating to the loan were fraudulently witnessed and that Hutchison's signature on one or more ...
