Average annual spending by debtors: $5,096Average annual spending by non-debtors: $5,262Percentage of debtors willing to cut : 26%Percentage of non-debtors willing to cut : 22%
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Average annual spending by debtors: $2,211Average annual spending by non-debtors: $3,188Percentage of debtors willing to cut : 30%Percentage of non-debtors willing to cut : 26%
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Average annual spending by debtors: $2,186Average annual spending by non-debtors: $2,023Percentage of debtors willing to cut : 48%Percentage of non-debtors willing to cut : 44%
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Average annual spending by debtors: $1,892Average annual spending by non-debtors: $1,515Percentage of debtors willing to cut : 35%Percentage of non-debtors willing to cut : 31%
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Average annual spending by debtors: $1,629Average annual spending by non-debtors: $1,326Percentage of debtors willing to cut : 25%Percentage of non-debtors willing to cut : 19%
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Average annual spending by debtors: $1,538Average annual spending by non-debtors: $1,232Percentage of debtors willing to cut : 36%Percentage of non-debtors willing to cut : 33%
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Average annual spending by debtors: $1,385Average annual spending by non-debtors: $1,317Percentage of debtors willing to cut : 28%Percentage of non-debtors willing to cut : 18%
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Average annual spending by debtors: $1,198Average annual spending by non-debtors: $1,083Percentage of debtors willing to cut : 39%Percentage of non-debtors willing to cut : 32%
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Car loans and leases were the biggest luxury expenses for both debtors and non-debtors.
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Collectors would also be banned from contacting debtors through emails used for and provided by the debtors' employer.
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In Memphis, that means the debtors who use the bankruptcy system the most — low-income black debtors — fare the worst.
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Only 28% of debtors and 18% of non-debtors said they'd be willing to pay half of what they're spending now.
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Yet when the authors confined their analysis to college graduates, they found that debtors in their late-20s were more likely to own a home than non-debtors.
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Both debtors and non-debtors spent the most on car loans and leases and were the most willing to cut back on dining out and takeout food expenses.
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The proposal from the CFPB also bars debt collectors from taking certain actions that could harm debtors' credit ratings or lead to costly litigation between debtors and collectors.
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Nationally, the odds of black debtors choosing Chapter 13 instead of Chapter 7 were more than twice as high as for white debtors with a similar financial profile.
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Out-of-home entertainment was less important to survey respondents — 36% of debtors and 33% of non-debtors reported being willing to cut their spending on this expense in half.
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And notably, black debtors in that district file under Chapter 7 almost half the time, a rate significantly higher than even the white debtors in the Western District of Tennessee.
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For instance, under the proposed rules, debt collectors can't contact debtors through their work email, and debtors can request collection agencies don't contact particular social media accounts, email addresses, or phone numbers.
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Average spending on subscription services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and Spotify was the second-lowest on this list — $1,198 per year for debtors and $1,083 per year for non-debtors.
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The bank provided voice samples from a few thousand debtors.
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Debtors who cannot keep up with payments can face horrors.
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Bondholders are preparing to take legal action against both debtors.
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Check out our documentary about modern debtors' prison in America.
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The invariable answer: by tightening the screws on the debtors.
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McKinsey began advising Chapter 11 debtors through RTS in 2011.
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Upon filing, debtors are shielded from garnishments and debt collectors.
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But most debtors in the district don't own a home.
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Check out our documentary on modern debtors' prisons in America.
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Average annual spending by debtors: $1,146Average annual spending by non-debtors: $945Percentage of debtors willing to cut : 23%Percentage of non-debtors willing to cut : 20% Read more:What average Americans spend in a year in 22 major cities10 Ways To Cut Spending That Could Save You Over $1,000 A MonthI decided to organize my money using Marie Kondo's decluttering strategy, and ended up paying off $10,000 of debtHow to consolidate credit card debt to streamline your payments and lower your interest rate
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Debtors would shell out more each month under the Trump plan.
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And if that doesn't work, agents start making calls to debtors.
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We've outlawed debtors prisons in this country and for good reason.
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Loan-servicing units, which pursue individual debtors, are especially appealing targets.
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Phil Bryant to get behind a law to end debtors' prisons.
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Chapter 11Large business debtors have two bankruptcy options: liquidation or reorganization.
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Banks also have little incentive to pursue debtors in Italy's courts.
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Most indulged in fine living; many were debtors rather than savers.
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Reset is also looking to bring down the cost for debtors.
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Both debtors and creditors agree that would put patient health at risk.
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Debtors may have their loans forgiven after 15 years in the plan.
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The larger payments help debtors get out from under their loans sooner.
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Each of you should urge him to attend Debtors Anonymous meetings (debtorsanonymous.org).
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Today, lenders are left with little recourse when sovereign debtors go bust.
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Second, the debtors would have to be concentrated in big, globalised economies.
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The eurozone became divided between debtors and creditors rather than equal partners.
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Scrutiny of these differences, and how they affect debtors, has been scant.
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Falling prices also make it even harder for debtors to repay loans.
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"You should never worry about going to a debtors' prison," says McClary.
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Other debtors like the nation's largest cities are in a similar position.
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And the unpaid players merely fell into line with the other debtors.
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"Podcasting is now emerging as an important audio platform, closely tied to radio, one that the debtors believe is vital to the long-term success of the debtors' initiatives," iHeart said in a filing in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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For example, California allows debtors to exempt up to $100,000 in home value.
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Walk into a court case between landlords and tenants, or creditors and debtors.
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He sued contractors and debtors as well as Bill Maher and Miss Pennsylvania.
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It has made the marketplace for small business loans more competitive, benefiting debtors.
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Billboards that publicly name irresponsible debtors are a common sight in some areas.
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Faced with losing their licenses, the reasoning goes, debtors will find the money.
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Debtors' prison was looming when her false death notice appeared in the newspapers.
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It also expects its 2.1 billion rand debtors' book to come under pressure.
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Kate reached a crisis point 12 years ago and turned to Debtors Anonymous.
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It&aposs illegal for collectors to call debtors outside of normal business hours.
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They were also employed by small firms to help recover money from debtors.
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"Specifically, between March 2011 and February 20153, Joseph R. Francis, the Debtors' founder, funneled more than $2.1 million of the Debtors' funds to various persons and entities in order to build and maintain the Casa Aramara Property," court papers state.
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Using longitudinal data on college-going Americans who were aged between 12 and 17 in 103, the authors found that student-loan debtors were in fact more likely than non-debtors to own a house by the age of 30.
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That usually means more inflation, as governments pay back debtors by printing more money.
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The tough Czech approach to debtors is rooted in the country's transformation from communism.
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People reports that the rapper's debtors examination yesterday got off to a shaky start.
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Debtors Anonymous is a support program designed to help people stop incurring unsecured debt.
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Four main debtors jointly represented nearly 66% of total equity, which Fitch considers high.
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It can disqualify debtors for auto loans, apartment rentals, utilities and even cellphone contracts.
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Governments, generally massive debtors, have a natural interest in borrowing at low interest rates.
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Every time he does this, he cheats those debtors to whom he owes money.
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Debtors then evaluate their problems and make the necessary changes to succeed after reorganizing.
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Benefits for creditorsClearly, bankruptcy provides debtors with significant power to rearrange their business affairs.
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Then, Toys R Us' debtors have until April 12 to approve any final sales.
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Two options presented themselves: a Dickensian debtors' prison or a life on the lam.
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Even a mild recession could cause a lot of pain for credit card debtors.
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Still, that doesn&apost mean that his advice for debtors aligns with conventional wisdom.
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In ye olden days, people were routinely tossed into debtors' prisons for bills in arrears.
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In March the public prosecutor offered a one-month amnesty for debtors to settle up.
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Two main debtors represented nearly 23% and 16% of total equity, which Fitch considers high.
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A suspicion that central banks were likely to favour creditors over debtors was not foolish.
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That hurts creditors and benefits debtors, who see the real value of their obligations shrink.
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Instead, it usually responds by reducing the amount of money that debtors have to repay.
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Corporations can kidnap debtors and push them into VR slavery in something called loyalty centers.
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Some of these debtors are deadbeats, of course, unwilling to make payments they can afford.
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That, in turn, makes debtors less able to pay off loans — creating a vicious cycle.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) have proposed allowing student loan debtors to refinance with federal loans.
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Combating the debtors' prisons must be a central part of efforts to eliminate mass incarceration.
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But soon she reappeared in Paris, and the pattern of lovers and debtors' prison resumed.
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It also extends a six-month grace period for debtors struggling to repay subsidised loans.
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McKinsey was accused of not identifying clients who had connections with debtors the firm represented.
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Arizona's legislature should take note and restore property rights by protecting property tax debtors' equity.
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Americans age 60 and older are the fastest-growing age group of student loan debtors.
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While trade receivables (including bills receivables) days further increased to 163 (2015: 160), debtors are paying more promptly, with 93% of trade debtors having payments due within 90 days compared with only 76% in 5003 and Fitch expects receivables days to decline in 2017.
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It has become the government's mission to make sure debtors can't escape reminders of their obligations.
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I think whatever proceeds went to the debtors and then they shut that down. Zero. Right.
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In its analysis, NerdWallet modeled repayment schedules for debtors earning $20,000, $30,000 and $40,166 a year.
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In the first case, the danger is that there will be a policy mistake, squeezing debtors.
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Across the country more than 6,000 collection firms contact debtors more than 1bn times a year.
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That is an encouraging sign that the balance of power between debtors and creditors is shifting.
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Mr Malpass works for the World Bank's biggest shareholder; Mr Hayek for one of its debtors.
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Subsidies to debtors and penalties for savers, I think in the long term harms the economy.
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The fight will go on between debtors and creditors over austerity, debt relief and the ECB.
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They distribute fliers using the pictures and phone numbers of debtors and advertising for sexual services.
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More than 4 million debtors were in default last year, up from 3.6 million in 2015.
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For debtors, bankruptcy gives time and space to address debts, but creditors also receive strong protections.
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It also takes expertise to identify certain groups of debtors that RIP's donors want to target.
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Even if RIP wanted to, there's no way for the organization to target particularly "virtuous" debtors.
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Rather than holding on to the debt, the group forgives it, freeing debtors from their obligations.
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Until this decade, the world's developed countries always found themselves as the creditors, not the debtors.
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Don't listen to depressing stats, such as that 25% of debtors expect to die in debt.
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The push to abolish debtors' prisons will continue, as community advocates and local officials press on.
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Such guarantees provide state protection for companies doing business abroad when foreign debtors fail to pay.
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On the other hand, when Ralph Earl ended up in debtors' prison, he had to depend on the members of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Debtors, who went to the jail to sit for portraits so that he could earn enough for his release.
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But as the debtors' senior mangement and the individuals ultimately responsible for producing the projections, they knew (or certainly had every reason to know) precisely what taxes, payroll, royalties and payables the debtors had already incurred and would become due, especially just weeks in the future.
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A : For each of our debtors, we create a transition file with personal data about the client.
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Mugabe said Zimbabwe's bad record with debtors was holding back potential funding from China, Japan and India.
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But such messages would have to give debtors the option to opt out of receiving more messages.
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While the majority of debtors owe between $240,222 and $225,22017, about 303,230 people owe more than $2000,210.
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Debtors arrive after the casinos have turned their debts over to prosecutors, who have issued arrest warrants.
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Chasing errant debtors generated $2.2 million overall for the district attorney's office last year, public records show.
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The company listed 20 other debtors, many of which are lawyers, web traffic analytics companies, and consultants.
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Many of the biggest debtors are front companies set up by local governments to evade national regulators.
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D.D.s" — the dropouts and debtors — Mr. Barney said, "I'm really sad about that, but I'm not guilty.
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However, it received no public response, such as tips about the whereabouts of the debtors, he said.
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Benefits of bankruptcy for debtorsBankruptcy provides at least two valuable benefits to all debtors: time and space.
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At Harvard he had watched ragged debtors take up arms against the Massachusetts government in Shays' Rebellion.
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It was more because of the way debtors were treated than it was for the religious persecution.
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The organs suggest that the spiritualist practice will purify the blood and rid debtors of their debts.
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Goldman is essentially restricted to working only for debtors, to avoid generating conflicts of interest with clients.
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"It's not going to go away," he said, adding that the village owed $850,000 to its debtors.
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Older debtors, many of whom live hand-to-mouth on fixed incomes, are more likely to default.
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Monthly payments on new auto loans might be just a few dollars more than for existing debtors.
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The conversion price is to be "market-oriented" and negotiated by banks, investors, debtors and the implementing agencies.
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These insurers in turn provide compensation to the banks should KUR debtors fail to meet their financial obligations.
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Consumer finance regulation stipulates that pawnbroking loans have to be repaid by debtors, even under debt-relief procedures.
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These govern everything from when debtors may legally be contacted to the manner and content of those communications.
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Early debt systems often answered by formalizing rules such as debtors going into slavery or forfeiting their daughters.
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The debtors, he charged, "carefully orchestrated a strategy to pass the company over to bondholders" without fair bidding.
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The biggest debtors are large state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which responded eagerly to the government's nudge to spend.
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Peresvet got a further 69.7 billion roubles from debtors who agreed to convert their funds into subordinated bonds.
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He agreed to take on one of the company's bankruptcy loans, which debtors typically repay, in its entirety.
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The euro zone's one-size-fits-all regime, he says, means debtors cannot decide their mix of policies.
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Higher loan loss provisions not only eat into earnings, but may also suggest mediocre debtors or poor credit.
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Perhaps Rosselló believes that the existing compromise attempts to squeeze too much blood out of the commonwealth's debtors.
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They hound not just the debtors but their families, friends and business associates, demanding that they help pay.
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Other steps include adding debtors to travel blacklists that keep them from boarding planes and high-speed trains.
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Clinton has promised to give tons of people debt-free college and let student debtors refinance their loans.
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Lampert agreed to take on one of the company's bankruptcy loans, which debtors typically repay, in its entirety.
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"Such relief is necessary to avoid immediate and irreparable harm to the debtors and their estates," he said.
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Members of Debtors Anonymous can often be divided into two groups: those who overwork and those who underearn.
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Lenders would only be allowed to unsuccessfully charge debtors accounts' twice before requiring further permission from the customer.
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That means ending the practice of seizing the Social Security benefits of poor or disabled student loan debtors.
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There are over 44 million student debtors, and researchers estimate that as many as 40 percent could default.
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Struggles among oil and gas debtors have dominated the narrative of the Singapore banking sector over the past year.
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According to Brutyan, the way debt collection works today is that agencies send letters to debtors who owe money.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Bridegrooms in the Gaza Strip are finding marriage a path to debtors' prison rather than to happiness.
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Rather than leaving creditors and debtors to sort out their mess by themselves, financial regulators should participate alongside them.
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State-controlled media say the collectors' tactics have included threatening debtors with red liquids while claiming to have HIV.
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Jia was named to a national blacklist of debtors, and some of his assets were frozen by Chinese courts.
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Earlier this month, the star participated in his debtors examination before cutting the sit-down short due to illness.
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The company's board rejected that bid last week in favor of one that would give American Apparel's debtors control.
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Part of the problem is the ineffectiveness of the formal bankruptcy process in Brazil for creditors and debtors alike.
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Debtors get used to ultra-low interest rates and keep borrowing (that's the point of the policy, after all).
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We need true bail reform — an end to our modern-day debtors' prisons — and better access to legal counsel.
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In the summer, new laws were passed that allowed banks to initiate foreclosures if debtors are regarded as uncooperative.
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But, like Memphis, it's overwhelmingly black debtors who file for Chapter 13 to forestall license suspensions or car seizures.
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To win court approval, debtors must prove the plans pay for performance rather than simply substitute for retention payments.
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Many of the lawsuits are mundane consequences of doing business — actions against gambling debtors at his casinos, employment disputes.
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States had been using license revocation as a tool to strong-arm debtors into restarting payments on their loans.
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As with other 12-step programs, it often takes a catastrophic moment for individuals to turn to Debtors Anonymous.
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States were also invited to amend national insolvency regimes to speed up the recovery of bad loans from debtors.
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The harsh treatment of debtors has often fuelled support in poor areas for far-right and far-left political parties.
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The commission decided to consider the case after a complaint from a local association of debtors in Swiss francs, "Franak".
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Eventually under a fixed money system, the debtors were unable to repay; the system collapsed and had to be remade.
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"There is no current representative of the debtors available to comment," said Jay Jaffe, one of the company's bankruptcy lawyers.
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The ECB has been criticised both for favouring northern European creditors over southern European debtors and for cosseting southern spendthrifts.
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Puerto Rico is included in the 0.3% figure, as are the other big outstanding sovereign debtors — Sudan, Iraq, and Venezuela.
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For people who can't afford the amount they owe, they become debtors whose bill collectors are judges and the police.
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In many cases workers fear that debtors will take advantage of the seasonal hiatus to pack up and skip town.
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"The proposal leaves the debtors with more leverage, with less liquidity and comes with uncertain and uncommitted financing," he said.
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Of course, Wharton Properties and the other debtors still have some four months or so to clear up their mortgages.
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Under the new framework, debtors have to owe a minimum of $113,700 to be declared insolvent, up from $7,100 previously.
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In an attempt to "limit excessive contact," the proposal would cap agencies' calls to debtors to six attempts each week.
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Then, when incomes don't rise quickly enough to service the liabilities, debtors pay the price and a vicious shift occurs.
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" It said "the Debtors concluded after discussions with Mr. Kagan that the Inclusion letter was not a bona fide offer.
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The debtors displayed on the board sometimes owe modest amounts, with one shamed for failing to pay just 1,13 yuan.
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Ministers also pushed for changes to national insolvency regimes that would speed up the recovery of bad loans from debtors.
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Creditors are asking the government to allow the auction of delinquent debtors' properties to prop up the country's tottering banks.
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The BOT has also asked financial institutions to help restructure debt for more debtors hurt by the outbreak, he said.
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Dismissing wide swaths of debtors as "doing just fine" does a disservice to the debate — and to the borrowers themselves.
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The debtors displayed on the board sometimes owe modest amounts, with one shamed for failing to pay just 1,984.1 yuan.
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Essentially, debtors must prove in court that they pass the test of "undue hardship," which is a notably vague framework.
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The real estate will be sold, and then that money split between the federal government and debtors and his victims.
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The conclusion thus seems almost inescapable that the debtors' senior mangement knew about but did not disclose those impending "unaccounted-for" expenditures to ensure consummation of the debtors' Contura sale and chapter 11 plan for their own benefit and to secure the releases of environmental liability from DEP (and other regulatory agencies) they so desired.
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By 2016YE, the top 20 debtors accounted for around 1.9x its Fitch Core Capital (FCC), which is higher than its peers.
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It wasn't a return of capital to debtors, and it didn't cross the debt so that the shareholders got paid back.
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In June 2016, this metric deteriorated somewhat to 1.1% as a result of the deterioration of a small number of debtors.
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Elizabeth Warren has a similarly expansive debt relief plan, but it includes some provisions to limit aid to higher-income debtors.
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"Every penny that is going into this plan, which is purportedly from Abengoa, is coming from the debtors themselves," Smith said.
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But this was mostly because debtors tended to be older, employed, married and with children, and the debt was largely irrelevant.
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Webb thinks that these modern debtors' prisons are so punitive that the underlying motivation is to stigmatize and punish the poor.
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As hateful as it may seem to Sanders and his ilk, there have to be consequences to debtors for behaving irresponsibly.
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Often, loan sharks make copies of debtors' state-issued identity cards when they lend money, which states the latter's residential address.
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Such an examination allows creditors to ask debtors questions under oath about their finances and their ability to pay the judgment.
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At least $5 billion in defaulted loan debt might not be collectible, potentially bailing out tens of thousands of student debtors.
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They're also prohibited from embarrassing or harassing the debtors in public, although what this really means is often up to debate.
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But the truth is usually just the opposite: debtors own the creditors — provided, of course, that the debts are sufficiently large.
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That might seem coy for a fund that made its name wading into bare-knuckle fights with overstretched emerging-market debtors.
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But despite being in opposing parties, Mr. Rubio and Ms. Warren teamed up to put forward legislation helping student-loan debtors.
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Ms. Warren has long been an advocate for debtors, and has pressed for more accountability for loan servicers and debt collectors.
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And your suggestions for easing the burden of student loans — better repayment plans, enabling wage growth for debtors — make good sense.
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Also be sure to do a thorough online background check on your lender, including what other debtors have said about them.
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Considering that there are potentially many newly-eligible debtors, this "first-come, first-served" fund may not last long at all.
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Even a mild recession coupled with very high card rates could cause a lot of pain for card debtors, Rossman said.
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They began purchasing portfolios of old debts to clear them as a public service, rather than try to hound the debtors.
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Because federal loans offer debtors the ability to provide lower payments and more flexibility if they run into trouble making payments, it often does not make sense to refinance with a private lender, said Betsy Mayotte, president of The Institute of Student Loan Advisors, a provider of free advice and help with dispute resolution for student loan debtors.
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Problems with debtors' capacity to repay could also lead to loan restructuring as has happened in the past in some specific cases.
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Sovereign debtors are usually keen to repay or restructure debt rather than repudiate it, in order to retain access to capital markets.
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A government is forced to choose between its debtors and others with a claim on its money, like civil servants and pensioners.
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That process involves financial restructuring and "reorganizing" until the company is, ideally, on more solid footing and able to pay its debtors.
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The CLOs pool fewer debts, their issuers know more about the debtors and their analysts monitor the debts after they are bought.
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Aerosoles' holding company AGI HoldCo Inc said it would continue to manage its stores and operate its businesses as "debtors in possession".
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Because there was no "threat of imminent liquidation", a third concluded in 2015, debtors felt no compulsion "to resolve their financial distress".
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The regulations would also prevent collection agencies from alerting credit agencies about debts without also informing the debtors they are doing so.
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The conditions attached to such support have caused relations between creditor countries such as Germany and debtors such as Greece to sour.
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Debtors' concerns about major banks' potential conflicts of interest have opened the door to independent firms like Rothschild Group to oversee turnarounds.
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Another sign of confidence is a decline in the spread (the interest premium relative to Treasury bonds) paid by emerging-market debtors.
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That makes sense: official public debt is low, at less than 50% of GDP, while state-owned companies are the biggest debtors.
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Fox 26 also reports that there are over 1,000 warrants yet to be served for outstanding student debtors in the Houston area.
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"It is an important initiative to deter dishonest debtors", said the Shanghai Railway Transport Court in a press release sent to Reuters.
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This larger pool of debtors holds $376.3 billion in debt — so the average American in their 20s owes an average of $22,303.
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A reminder: Dickens' other literary fixations include an orphan crime ring, the spiritual misery begat by debtors' prisons, and Christmas-based ghosts.
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But it soon emerged that the credit-card lobby had got a bill introduced that would enact harsh new restrictions on debtors.
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Reminiscent of "The Big Short" (2015), Peg's snappy, direct-to-camera lessons on the collections industry present debtors as eternally fruitful marks.
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"At nearly every turn during the course of subsequent negotiations, debtors have sought to undermine material terms of the deal," it said.
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Joan first learned about Debtors Anonymous from actor's support websites she would visit, where she would see an ad for the program.
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Credit card rates have fallen slightly since the Federal Reserve cut rates in July, but that's little comfort to credit card debtors.
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It also left him owing a great deal of money to a fearsome loan shark (Danny Ross) who enjoys torturing defaulting debtors.
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The expectation is that there will be an increase in voluntary negotiations between creditors and debtors to reach agreements on debt restructuring solutions.
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Tyga participated in his debtors examination on Tuesday in Santa Monica, California as part of celebrity jeweler Jason Arasheben's lawsuit against the rapper.
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This is the kind of thinking that makes sense—economically and politically—to provide relief to what has become a generation of debtors.
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The United States abolished the institution of debtors' prisons in 1833, making it illegal under federal law to imprison people for unpaid debts.
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Mr. Green, the congressman, called the arrest an egregious example of private companies' contracting with the government to help arrest and prosecute debtors.
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Until then, the only way out for the authorities under prohibition is to act as mediators between the drug gangs and the debtors.
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Loans from traditional bilateral lenders, including America and Japan, have declined from 7% of the debtors' GDP to 2% over the past decade.
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Any debt restructuring agreements reached between creditors and debtors must be truly voluntary, or else we are only talking about bankruptcy in disguise.
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We believe these advances allowed BCI to reduce its global portfolio risk profile, impaired loans and debtors' concentrations over the past two years.
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For the black debtors who, for generations, have made Memphis the bankruptcy capital of the U.S., the system delivers neither forgiveness nor renewal.
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When debtors receive a discharge of their debts at the end of the case, outstanding fees to their attorneys are also wiped out.
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His new startup works by making it easy for debtors to pay what they owe by paying online and setting up payment plans.
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The truth is that the only policy solution short of socialism is to accomplish a great transfer of wealth from investors to debtors.
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" In 22012, Warren, Westbrook, and Sullivan published their research in the book " As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America .
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According to research by Villanova law professor Jason Iuliano, a million student loan debtors have filed for bankruptcy in the past five years.
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While this system is better than only making the minimum payment, it still caused debtors to rack up a substantial amount of interest.
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Accordingly, he was driven to pursue a new compromise shifting more pain upon the creditors and the opposite for the Puerto Rico debtors.
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The EMAS Chiyoda debtors have filed a joint chapter 11 plan of reorganization and a disclosure statement, which puts forward a complex preliminary proposal for the establishment of a newly formed entity, to be owned by a member of the Subsea 7 Group and designated by Subsea 7 to acquire the equity of the emerging debtors and assume certain liabilities.
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" The judge continues, "The mirage of promised mortgage modification lured the plaintiff debtors into a Kafka-esque nightmare of stay-violating foreclosure and unlawful detainer, tardy foreclosure rescission kept secret for months, home looted while the debtors were dispossessed, emotional distress, lost income, apparent heart attack, suicide attempt, and post-traumatic stress disorder, for all of which Bank of America disclaims responsibility.
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Travel restrictions have been selectively imposed on debtors in the past, but the new policies are expanding the infractions that will get citizens blacklisted.
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Like the debtors in Rome 2,000 years ago, we must bail one another out, this time as the sea levels continue rising around us.
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A study in Norway into how drug dealers managed debtors found that most preferred to either extort and control their victims over using violence.
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Debtors may owe money to more than one bank, and different parts of a property (parking space, storage areas) may have been pledged separately.
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In accordance with those standards, the definition of forbearance focuses on concessions extended to debtors who face, or may face, difficulties in meeting payments.
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"Passports and employment contracts would be returned to the debtors if they could settle their loan by making a one-off payment," he said.
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"We think that Title III debtors and creditors are better off," said Luc Despins, a lawyer from Paul Hastings who represents the creditor committee.
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Bondholders are giving debtors a break too, worried that the highest borrowing costs in any major economy in the world may asphyxiate more companies.
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"What that says to me: buyer beware," said Henry Jaffe, a bankruptcy lawyer with Pepper Hamilton in Wilmington, Delaware who represents debtors and creditors.
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In the 123st century, the United States has reinstated a broad system of debtors' prisons, in effect making it a crime to be poor.
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Debtors looking to refinance with a lower interest rate can now turn only to the private market since the federal government doesn't issue refinancing.
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Debtors would be legally entitled to unsubscribe from electronic communications and ask collectors not to use certain phone numbers or accounts to reach them.
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In his eyes, debtors need Chapter 13 to train them to get their financial houses in order and instill discipline on their unruly spending.
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Since bankruptcy gives debtors the ability to impose payment cuts over creditor objections, it is seen as a negative for bond markets, Jacoby said.
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The records define related parties as entities that are under common control, suggesting that the assignment did not affect the ultimate debtors and creditors.
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Additionally, lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis LLP serving as listed counsel to the debtors in the Barneys bankruptcy proceedings did not return request to comment.
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Prior to Debtors Anonymous, she said she would have had three suitcases with three or four changes of clothes and shoes for each event.
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"The stark reality is that the debtors are projected to run out of cash in the U.S. in May 2018," the court filing read.
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The statute of limitations on medical debt varies from state to state, but collectors can't sue debtors once the statute of limitations has expired.
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Instead, it was the omission of debts and obligations that were plain to see ("the debtors had all the necessary information at their disposal").
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They also knew (or certainly had every reason to know) precisely what the Contura agreement required and would obligate the reorganized debtors to pay.
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Overly aggressive Fed tightening could create crises for many of those debtors—look at Argentina's recent begging at the door of the International Monetary Fund.
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Collectly identifies the best way to contact debtors and tracks when they open and respond emails, providing more transparency to those who are seeking repayment.
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"The question before the court is whether the debtors exercised sound business judgment in approving the proposed sale," ESL said, referring to bankrupt Sears entities.
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They also found that looking at decent rates of repayment by student debtors is a misleading way to look at the scale of this crisis.
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Resolving the eurozone crisis is a case in point: Should the debtors pay for their alleged misdeeds, or should solidarity imply a sharing of risk?
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Debtors will often set aside some value for unsecured creditors — known as a tip — in order to head off a possible fight over asset values.
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"The debtors have satisfied the standard for the rejection of the contracts," said Judge Shelley Chapman in Manhattan, who read the opinion from the bench.
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"Indeed, the debtors (Seadrill) recently received proposals from each of Barclays and the Ad Hoc Group," Seadrill said in the court documents filed last Friday.
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Second, control of the financial system—the state owns the major banks and most of their biggest debtors—gave them time to clean things up.
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"Early expressions of interest in purchasing some or all of the debtors' business operations have been strong," Modi's Firestar Diamond Inc said in the filing.
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A new book, "A Pound of Flesh," by Alexes Harris of the University of Washington, notes that these modern debtors' prisons now exist across America.
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To fight this rising tide, Chinese courts have ramped up their use of shaming tactics, underlining the failure of other methods of making debtors pay.
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It stretches out payment plans by up to 120 monthly installments to more debtors, offers discounts and cuts the minimum monthly repayment to 20 euros.
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One estimate from the Economic Survey suggests that 57% of the top 100 stressed debtors would need debt reductions of 75% to make them viable.
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Although companies follow many different paths to bankruptcy, each one encounters a process that is carefully designed to balance the rights of debtors and creditors.
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The debtors have had settlement discussions with Mr. Denton though they have not reached a final agreement, according to the court documents filed on Wednesday.
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Some pals, left unchecked, will solicit us (for their favorite museum or medical research or children's travel soccer team) until we land in debtors' prison.
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Debtors, nearly all black like her, crowded the wedge-shaped waiting area as lawyers, paralegals and court staff, almost all white, milled about in front.
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The moratorium of no less than 90 days applies to private or corporate debtors who wish to use it, the bank said in a statement.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - When Piya Pong-acha's employees chase payments from Thai debtors there are no strong men pounding on doors or threatening letters from lawyers.
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But if the euro zone should break up, debtors — the national central banks of countries leaving the bloc — would have to pay the money back.
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I fear what could happen to credit card debtors if that rises to 25%, 2700% or 217.61%, let alone the 20% we saw in 21.
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The categories were all classified as "luxury" expenses, and the survey analyzed responses from Read more: I've paid off over $8,000 of credit card debt thanks to a simple habit change I didn't realize I needed to makeHere are the average spending habits of debtors and non-debtors on 9 luxury expenses, plus the percentages of people who'd be willing to cut back on each category.
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For years, two key planks of property law have been singled out for criticism: Aggressive asset forfeiture and bankruptcy filings that let many debtors skirt obligations.
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Seizure of income can leave debtors with as little as 6,225 crowns ($273.23) per month, a quarter of the average net wage for a single person.
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"At this critical juncture, it is paramount that the debtors maintain control over the process and continue to advance these efforts," Westinghouse argued in court papers.
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Persepolis is a polar opposite: everyone is completely equal in this libertarian-style society, but succeeding is difficult, with debtors frozen when they can't get by.
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Creditor committees allow lenders and debtors to negotiate their debt on their own, in order to seek best debt solutions for troubled firms, according to Cao.
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Such talks include a number of factors, including how Sears would use its remaining collateral, like its real estate and Kenmore brand, to offer debtors protection.
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Borrower concentrations at the loan portfolio are moderate - the top 20 debtors accounted for 1.4x of the bank's Fitch Core Capital (FCC) at the same date.
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Croatia's parliament earlier this month adopted the law to protect local debtors against loans denominated in euros promoted and provided by branches of the Austrian lender.
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As De Mones points out, the average EM current account deficit then was 2.1 percent of economic output, meaning the countries were on average net debtors.
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Consequently banks now hold high volumes of non-performing loans — a problem that is worsening as industrial profitability falls and debtors struggle to service interest payments.
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Such a petition is not a bankruptcy filing but stops creditors from pursuing legal actions in the United States, giving debtors time to restructure their businesses.
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Such a petition is not a bankruptcy filing but keeps creditors from pursuing legal actions in the United States, giving debtors time to restructure their businesses.
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The SEO has asked banks to structure MBS using receivables from high-quality debtors and to use receivables that have an existing repayment history, Pireh added.
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It would do that by collecting information on absconding debtors, holding press conferences to gain publicity, and restricting access to credit among other methods, he said.
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The decree expands upon 2013 Chinese Supreme Court rules that say dishonest debtors' details can be published in newspapers, on the radio, television and the internet.
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Hidden under the guise of the cash bail system, our modern day debtors prison could easily appear as a fair part of our overall judicial system.
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Weak capital metrics are further exacerbated by slight high concentrations on its top 20 debtors, although this is partially alleviated by a sufficient portion of provisions.
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Alarmed by Trump's agenda, consumer advocates and student groups also are gearing up to fight any efforts to change the government's role and student debtors' rights.
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As efficiently as cases are opened, they are closed — usually because debtors fail to keep up with payments, according to a ProPublica analysis of court data.
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"The burden of onerous debt service and heightened leverage would imperil the debtors' ability to maintain the flexibility needed to withstand such downside scenarios," Cowan said.
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S. Bankruptcy court confirmed debtors' plan of reorganization, paving way to conclude CEOC's court-supervised restructuring process in 2017 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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This program, created under George W. Bush, erased student debt after ten years of on-time payments if the debtors went into government or nonprofit work.
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That database is based on debtors who have been sued and lost their cases in China, particularly in the more important courts in China's judicial system.
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In particular, they object to Pioneer's "extraordinarily dangerous" suggestion that debtors use 401(k) funds, home loans and credit cards to pay off their overdue taxes.
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They particularly criticized the extended payment offers and the encouragement for debtors to send in "extra payments," both of which they said violated the I.R.S. code.
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For much of Western history, the only way out from under crushing debt was debtors' prison, where you'd be coerced into working off what you owed.
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Poland's ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party ruled out state help for borrowers in 2017 saying instead that debtors should ask the courts for help.
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In September 693, to pay her debtors, the New York City marshal auctioned off her portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt for $40 ($688 in today's dollars).
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Dickens, in writing about the injustice of debtors' prisons, was unaffected by the fact that those institutions were largely in decline by the time he wrote.
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Debtors Anonymous first started in the late 1960s when some members of Alcoholics Anonymous started holding separate meetings to discuss issues they were having with money.
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The American Bar Association endorsed the Justice Department's guidance, and the Conference of State Court Administrators cited it in a policy paper on ending debtors' prisons.
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Workers in a debtors' prison toil in a magical factory whose workshops drain literal years away from their lives, emerging from their shifts as weary elders.
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The South China Morning Post reported the Shushan District Court in the Anhui province decided to publicly out debtors on billboards and TVs located in public areas.
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In part, the initiative is a victim of the Communist Party's own propaganda: what debtors see as hard-to-service loans, state media paint as beneficent "aid".
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The banks insist that wide spreads reflect not a cosy oligopoly but the high risk of default and the difficulty of pursuing debtors through slow, unsympathetic courts.
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Like Ms. Hopkinson's work, it merges fact and fiction in portraying the year that Charles was 12, and his father, John Dickens, was sent to debtors' prison.
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The amount of debt one person carries accounts for nearly a third of a FICO credit score, making it a very important factor for debtors to understand.
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Some debtors quit their jobs so they can crack open their pension pots to fend off creditors—and then reapply for the same position, says Mr Manyike.
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He was sentenced to 18 months in 2010 following clashes with the government over another company, this one called AmeriDebt, which the FTC said had cheated debtors.
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I need to have the accounts squared away for the new shipments that come in every day and be ready to pass things along on to debtors.
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There is no one person who can speak for, say, consumers or debtors as a whole, so economic journalists must resort to experts who study aggregate behaviour.
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The government will not force ailing banks to publish a black-list of their big debtors when it amends a decree on weak lenders, Il Messaggero reported.
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The firm has represented a number of creditors in the bankruptcy filings by Eddie Bauer, Filene's Basement and Samsonite Stores, and represented some debtors, like Crabtree & Evelyn.
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The provision ordered the Federal Communications Commission to set new rules allowing debt collectors to robocall cellphones to hunt down debtors and get them to pay up.
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Greece was living as a "debtors' colony", which would eventually lead to its "desertification", Varoufakis told reporters at a central Athens theatre, his black shirt still untucked.
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A disproportionate number of these debtors went to for-profit colleges, students who hoped to climb their way to prosperity and were instead thrown off the ladder.
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The CFPB proposal is meant to limit potential harassment by debt collectors while giving them clearer guidance on how to legally use newer technology to contact debtors.
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"Like the creditors, we are keenly interested in the plan from the debtors," lawyer Thomas Kreller said on behalf of parent Caesars at the hearing on Monday.
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By declaring bankruptcy, debtors can start a monthly Chapter 13 plan tied to their income and get the power turned back on within a month or so.
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Still, he says that while this first student-loan pronouncement from Trump is relatively benign for most student debtors, it's a "concerning" harbinger of things to come.
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Jemmy Tattoo, a thick-set debt collector who works for PT Laksana Cakrawala, told VICE that he has psychological tricks to convince stubborn debtors to pay up.
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RIP is similar in purpose to various debt-relief groups that cropped up in 18th and early 19th century England, when debtors were often sent to prison.
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To turn things around, YT stepped down as CEO (marooned in a California mansion to avoid his Chinese debtors), though he is still involved with the company.
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Any kind of widespread forgiveness for existing debtors who hadn't entered public service or paid decades of interest already seemed far-fetched — and then, suddenly, it didn't.
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Chief Financial Officer Andi Pravidia Saliman told reporters that the embattled company would repay debtors through a 30 percent cash scheme and 70 percent tax equity financing scheme.
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Toys 'R' Us said on Thursday it was seeking approval to liquidate inventory in 735 U.S. stores, which debtors anticipate will close by the end of this year.
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The company also plans to add a premium subscription — targeted at $1 per month — that will help debtors through more complicated transactions, such as refinancing or loan forgiveness.
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The regulator said credit risk could rise into the second half due to higher loan charges and debtors' inability to service dollar borrowing, particularly oil and gas loans.
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"The stark reality is that the Debtors (Toys "R" Us) are projected to run out of cash in the U.S. in May 2018," documents say, USA Today reported.
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"I confirm the debtors' plan," Judge Shannon said, adding that "a swift decision" was necessary to allow American Apparel to emerge from bankruptcy and start on its turnaround.
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It's now a unit of the ECMC Group, which, among other things, represents the federal government in bankruptcy court when debtors try to discharge their student loan debt.
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Photo: Gareth Cattermole (Getty)The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed a new set of rules on Tuesday that would change how debt collectors can pester debtors.
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Toys 'R' Us on Thursday said it was seeking approval to liquidate inventory in 2500.2 U.S. stores, which debtors anticipate will close by the end of this year.
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"The group needs to seek legal shelter to pre-empt inundations of litigations from its debtors," said Robson Lee, a Singapore-based partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
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Historically, this has been a sign that investors are less risk averse than before—they trust debtors will not default and that central banks will not stoke inflation.
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It said it had reached restructuring agreements with many of the chronic bad debtors resulting in improved payments and prospects of future recoveries, it said in a statement.
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Iran owes Germany about 500 million euros ($569 million) under so-called Hermes covers, a German government arrangement that protects German companies if foreign debtors fail to pay.
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The change follows debt defaults at shadow lender Dewan Housing which owes close to 1 trillion rupees ($14 billion) to its debtors, who include banks and mutual funds.
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Post-revolutionary law practice proved lucrative: In the 1780s, Marshall's practice boomed in Richmond, where he represented hundreds of Virginia debtors in their efforts to evade British creditors.
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To avoid a contested process, savvy debtors seek a global settlement with as many stakeholders as possible and offer "sweeteners" to sway undecided creditors to support their plan.
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And when their cases are dismissed, debtors are often in worse straits, because as they struggled to make payments, the interest on their unpaid debts continued to mount.
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In 0, about half of the black debtors who filed under Chapter 13 in the district had done so at least once before in the previous five years.
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"I say all the time that in Memphis, debtors don't earn a living wage," said Sylvia Brown, one of the two trustees for Chapter 13 cases in Memphis.
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The differences between creditors and debtors that have long stymied euro-zone integration are as entrenched as ever: Germany firmly opposes a common deposit-insurance scheme, for example.
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"The value of the debtors' estates and their ongoing business depends on their continued successful festivals, events and club shows," argued SFX's lawyer Dennis Meloro, according to Mixmag.
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The plaintiffs filed the class action in 2012 in federal court accusing Santander of violations of the debt collection law including misrepresenting debt loads and bypassing debtors' lawyers.
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The direct cost of mildly undershooting the Fed's inflation target is low, favoring creditors over debtors, for example, but it's not likely to cause any broad economic distress.
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Iran owes Germany about 500 million euros ($570 million) under so-called Hermes covers, a German government arrangement that protects German companies if foreign debtors fail to pay.
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One school of thought held that American bankruptcy law was too kind to debtors and made it too easy for individuals to wriggle out of their financial obligations.
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During the pendency of the chapter 11 cases, the debtors' senior management jockeyed for positions at Contura and then assumed those positions immediately upon consummation of the plan.
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In a sharp exchange, Warren argued that the credit card industry was already piling on debtors with "interest and fees and payments," provoking a reaction from a frustrated Biden.
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Analysts say banks will soon have to declare the loans in those schemes as non-performing loans, which will trigger the timeline for banks to take debtors to court.
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The Centre for Global Development, a think-tank in Washington, has counted more than 2465 cases between 2.33 and 22.3 in which China provided relief to its debtors overseas.
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Police have also accused the bank of granting loans to borrowers who were already in trouble or without making sure debtors were in a position to repay the funds.
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The company said in a filing on Monday that the bankruptcy court entered an order confirming debtors' amended joint plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code.
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The bankruptcy watchdog in court papers on Wednesday argued the plan's exculpation provision should be narrowed to estate fiduciaries: Seventy Seven, its directors and officers and the debtors' professionals.
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Referring to other countries' experience, he said that China needed to deal with both creditors and debtors and to address governance problems in both the corporate and banking sectors.
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In May, Shanghai Putuo People's Court plastered the details of 76 debtors on electric billboards on the outside of five popular shopping malls, said a spokesman at the court.
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SACE's consolidated net income was EUR309 million in 2015 (2014: EUR471 million), but its underwriting profits can be volatile, due to the timing and magnitude of recoveries from debtors.
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Debtors with between $100,000 and $250,000 in total household income would have less of their debt eliminated the closer they are to the upper limit on eligibility for forgiveness.
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But when he got into the White House, it became obvious that part of this simplification process was deregulation—and that is a different, and scarier, prospect for debtors.
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It is big swings that tend to be most disruptive, favoring either debtors (inflation) or creditors (deflation), and generally contributing to lack of faith in a country's financial system.
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In April 21153, the Cyprus parliament passed new corporate and personal insolvency laws, providing more flexibility for debtors and creditors to reach agreement and avoid formal bankruptcy and insolvency.
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Debtors agreed to obtain an order from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court authorizing payment of $300 million in cash as soon as practicable to holders of first-lien bank claims.
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About a quarter of debtors now enrolled in the government's income plans no longer are actually making payments based on their income, putting them at higher risk of default.
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Debt collection sucks for all parties involved: For debtors, receiving hassling phone calls and letters in the mail can be demoralizing, especially if they feel they are unable to pay.
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With a personalized communication strategy for each person they reach out to, Collectly also can provide debtors with appropriately structured repayment solutions if they can't pay the whole amount owed.
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The lawsuits tell the stories of people jailed for driving after having had their licenses suspended for failure to pay court debt—a situation that critics liken to debtors' prison.
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The auction was held in order for Johnson Publishing, the magazines' former parent company and owners of the photo archive, to pay its debtors after filing for bankruptcy in April.
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That, however, would improve financial stability by ensuring better risk sharing between creditors — who would collect more in real debt payments during booms and less during recessions — and their debtors.
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The real challenge is to address the problem of bad loans in a way that offers some hope to debtors like Mr. Hanis but does not undermine the banking system.
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Her research, Warren said on ABC World News Tonight in 1991, found most debtors were "a surprisingly middle class cross section of America," who had fallen on hard financial times.
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If the debtors do not object, claims can be made against them when they have entered bankruptcy even when there is no legal basis for the debt to be collected.
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The meeting, the first major gathering of the debtors and creditors since 2009, took place as auctions were underway to sell around 900 vehicles owned by al-Sanea and Saad.
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"Nothing in this order authorizes the debtors to advance and pay the legal costs of any member of the Sackler family, directly or indirectly," the judge wrote in the order.
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"Debtors lose motivation not just to work harder, but to work at all, they often drift to the grey economy," said Ladislav Mincic, chief analyst at the Czech Chamber of Commerce.
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According to the South China Morning Post, local authorities have started to publish the names of debtors in newspapers and at train stations in an attempt to make them pay up.
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The US government will reap $11 million from the Manafort forfeiture after paying back his debtors, plus the government will receive back taxes Manafort owed to the IRS and court fines.
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Student loan debtors and nondebtors have similar rates of participation in their retirement plans, they found — close to two-thirds of those groups were contributing to a 401(k) savings plan.
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As Vice President Biden addresses in his plan, cash bail is a modern-day debtors' prison and we must stop jailing people for being too poor to pay fines and fees.
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Turner said the Chinese authorities currently had capacity to bail out troubled borrowers and capital controls meant there was limited international lending to such debtors but said this needed careful monitoring.
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Progress in banking sector reform has been made, but implementation is dependent on the political will to confront debtors, which could wane in the run-up to parliamentary elections in May.
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"To date, information has not been flowing from the debtors quickly," White Star's official committee of unsecured creditors said in a motion on Tuesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Oklahoma City.
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Debtors reported spending an average of $1,629 per year on cell phone services and upgrades, while only 25% of survey respondents said they'd be willing to cut their spending in half.
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Concern is growing that the companies and their debtors will use Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to force the costs of mine reclamation onto taxpayers, despite the industry's standing obligations to pay.
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When ProPublica analyzed consumer bankruptcy filings nationwide, the district stood out, both for the stunning number of cases in which debtors were unable to get relief, and for the reasons why.
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A recent study found that the "no money down" model is becoming more prevalent, prompting concerns that it is snaring increasing numbers of unsuspecting debtors and ultimately keeping them in debt.
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After a restructuring plan fell apart early this year, banks that were its largest debtors converted their debt into equity, taking control of the company, The Press Trust of India reported.
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Gerald E. ScorseNew York To the Editor: David Leonhardt doesn't mention an option that many of us who suffer from overwhelming college debt would like: bankruptcy protections for student loan debtors.
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The company also provides a Knowledge Base for debtors seeking financial guidance and resources, but the only revenue stream comes from the actual litigation of student loan debt in bankruptcy filings.
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The department maintains that the loans are designed to encourage repayments without placing undue hardship on refugees, as interest-free deferments and reduced monthly payments are easily granted to struggling debtors.
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But, here, even more damning, the debtors' senior management sat on both sides on these very issues and stood to benefit uniquely from consummation of the plan and the DEP settlement.
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The show's central conceit is to throw money at individual borrowers, frustratingly (though understandably) leaving aside the question of what to do with the approximately 44,000,000 other student debtors out there.
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A few years ago, in a book called "Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order", I suggested that economic history could be seen as a battle between creditors and debtors.
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Bail-outs and belt-tightening were the prescribed solution for governments hit by sudden capital stops, which annoyed everyone: creditors resented opening their wallets; debtors contracted an acute case of austerity fatigue.
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The bankrupt retailer's debtors aim to open a new Toys 'R' Us and Babies 'R' Us branding company that maintains existing global license agreements and can invest and develop new retail shops.
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The new law introduces a "new debtor in possession bankruptcy regime" for debtors that have filed for bankruptcy but still hold assets, according to a statement on the Dubai's ruler official website.
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But it is also an exemplar of the euro area's wider ills: the tension between rules made in Brussels and the exigencies of national politics; and the conflict between creditors and debtors.
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Although in general terms loan exposures in affected cities is high, is still too early to measure the proportion of debtors or financed projects to have been directly affected by the events.
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Considering that there are potentially many newly eligible debtors, the money may not last long at all and you'll want to be one of the first applicants the Department reviews, said Kantrowitz.
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Earlier this week, the government approved amendments to the bankruptcy law, barring "wilful" defaulters - defined by the central bank as debtors who are able but unwilling to pay - from bidding for companies.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Tuesday proposed a rule meant to curb harassment by debt collectors with hard limits on how and when debtors can be contacted by collection agencies.
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The proposal would ban debt collectors from contacting debtors more than seven times per week and force collectors to wait seven days after a conversation with the debtor before reaching out again.
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Now Trump's new point person at this consumer agency—which ostensibly looks out for everyone from student debtors to people getting bilked for extra debit card fees—wants to finish the job.
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It is currently selling a portfolio of large debtors' NPLs with a gross book value of more than 3 billion euros and a real estate portfolio valued at up to 500 million.
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Alumni from that went to the Debt Collective, a union for debtors that has helped students launch debt strikes, such as former students of the now-defunct for-profit institution Corinthian Colleges.
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The shift in the Visegrad countries is nothing new; it has emerged over the past decade, while Europe was distracted by the debt crisis and focused on northern creditors and southern debtors.
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That's not fair, since the new act gives debtors like Prepa far more leverage to negotiate — leverage the power authority didn't have years ago when it started the negotiation with its creditors.
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" Westbrook told me, "I think all of us were affected when we went through the files and began to see the stories and began to talk to the lawyers and the debtors.
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While those banks are setting themselves up to become more high-priority debtors — and thus get first crack at being paid off — they are also taking on risk with such a move.
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Manafort is turning over property and assets worth at least $7.53 million to the US government and to his debtors and victims, which are mostly banks, as part of his criminal sentences.
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OTTAWA, March 4 (Reuters) - The Canadian province of Ontario, one of the world's largest sub-sovereign debtors, will unveil its annual budget on March 13, finance minister Rod Phillips said on Wednesday.
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Occupy Museum's Debtfair project in the biennial basically presents this US-wide community of artist-debtors as a challenge to the current privilege-based system of visibility that benefits the ultra rich.
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Unlike other types of debt, it's virtually impossible to wipe away student debt by declaring bankruptcy, and a few debtors have taken drastic steps like leaving the country to dodge collection agencies.
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He wants to use domestic economic reform and concessions to Berlin's calls for progress on defence integration to regain Germany's trust, leading to a "new deal" between the euro zone's creditors and debtors.
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"I don't think it's a very good idea because I think it will cause financial problems all over the world because all kinds of dollar debtors will hugely burdened," Summers told CNBC Tuesday.
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HOUSTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Oilfield services provider Parker Drilling Co said it filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday under an agreement with a group of debtors that will allow it to quickly restructure.
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The organization focuses on the poor: debtors have to earn less than twice the federal poverty level, are insolvent, or have medical debt that makes up at least 5% of their annual income.
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While investors look for clues about the health of the global economy, a research and analytics unit under S&P Global said a "hidden" segment of debtors is flashing early signs of trouble.
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In the US, Debt Collective—a remnant of the Occupy Wall Street movement—has helped thousands of debtors organize and go on strike, refusing to pay back over $182 million in student debt.
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As they seek restructuring advice, many are told their debts surpass the $4 million limit for a Chapter 12 family farm bankruptcy, said at least five lawyers who represent either debtors or creditors.
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Asset quality is pressured by relatively high concentrations per borrower; by YE16, the top 20 debtors accounted for about 1.2x of its Fitch Core Capital (FCC), although individually no single borrower exceeds 0003%.
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Four Maryland residents who defaulted on car loans filed the class action in 2012 in federal court alleging violations of the debt collection law, such as misrepresenting debt loads and bypassing debtors' lawyers.
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If the path toward building power among consumers and debtors relative to financial titans remains tough to navigate, it's a relief to have Democrats on the committee who are trying to do so.
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Collectors would be legally allowed to contact debtors through emails, taxes and private messages on social media platforms as long as those communications comply with timing and frequency rules set for phone calls.
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Over a century, the people's debt burden was eliminated, debtors could no longer be sold into slavery, old social units were replaced by 10 new groups on the basis of geography, not family.
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Or they can choose Chapter 227, which usually requires five years of payments to creditors before any debts are eliminated, but blocks foreclosures and car repossessions as long as debtors can keep up.
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Student debtors would not be penalized for missing loan payments during the designated period if they later apply for loan forgiveness programs, nor will interest be charged on loans during the payment suspension.
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In other words, debtors — and the average middle-class American fits that description — are paying a price for the surging economy even as they enjoy the benefits of higher pay and low inflation.
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Debtors' prisons are illegal in the U.S., but judges and lawyers have found a workaround: If people with unpaid bills are no-shows in court when summoned, they can be jailed for contempt.
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Instead, the EV startup burned billions in cash, scrapped plans for production facilities, gone through layoffs, furloughs, re-structuring, and saw its (now former) CEO declare bankruptcy and hide from his Chinese debtors.
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Specifically, Congress should apply to itself the principles of the Truth in Lending Act, which requires that banks and other lenders provide prospective debtors a concise written statement of the long-term cost.
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TORONTO, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Ontario, one of the world's largest sub-sovereign debtors, priced on Wednesday a C$500 million 7-year green bond, a document prepared by the joint lead managers showed.
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"While the Debtors struggled to unify their businesses and implement the Provide Acquisition, the floral industry — and consumer expectations — continued to evolve," CEO Scott Levin testified in documents filed Monday with the bankruptcy court.
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A recent report from the ACLU found that thousands of debtors, mostly in Black and Latino communities, "are arrested and jailed each year because they owe money" and millions more are threatened with incarceration.
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The number of debtors who cited medical issues as a contributing reason for their bankruptcy actually increased slightly after the law's implementation — 67.5% in the three years following the law's adoption versus 65.5% prior.
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However, the proposed rules also "clarify" how debt collectors can use email and texts, placing no hard limits on the number of electronic messages they can send to debtors, a CFPB official told Bloomberg.
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The amendment does provide some clarity and protection for consumers, but it also reads as a 538-page guide for all the ways that collection agencies could legally harass debtors in the modern age.
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"The debtors believe that the plan is in the best interests of creditors when compared to all reasonable alternatives," stated the filing to the Southern District of Texas division of the U.S. bankruptcy court.
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He has pushed for the federal oversight board created by law to give higher priority to the wishes of PREPA's debtors in restructuring negotiations, against the wishes of both the oversight board and Rosselló.
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Some of the people featured have changed their phone numbers, addresses and disappeared, said the release, adding that the public can call in with clues to help the authorities track down the runaway debtors.
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Around 782,000 dishonest debtors have been prohibited from taking the train, while 3.9 million have been banned from flying since the law came into effect, according to an announcement in the supreme court paper.
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States should recognize that when implemented correctly, a risk-based assessment tool can be a solution to the current bail problems that result in the perpetuation of debtors prison for those who can't pay.
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She points out that they benefit one class of employees — the debtors — over others, and draw from the same employee benefit pool that could be used to augment other universal benefits like health insurance.
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Better Markets recently detailed how the CFPB's proposal would create a debtors' prison without bars for millions of Americans who were trapped in an endless cycle of payday loans that they could not repay.
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The Higher Education Faculty Forward campaign is fighting for union academic jobs with livable wages, fully funded public college that makes education affordable and accessible for all, and debt relief for student loan debtors.
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The rule would also bar debt collectors from contacting credit agencies about debts without notifying debtors and ban lawsuits or legal threats from collectors over debts that have extended past a statute of limitations.
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"This is a new program in that we're still in the first year or so of forgiveness applications," said Betsy Mayotte, president of the Institute of Student Loan Advisors, a nonprofit adviser to debtors.
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In December, a lawmaker, Mahmoud Sadeghi, released a document listing the Top 20 debtors who had failed to meet payment deadlines for Sarmayeh Bank, which is co-owned by a pension fund for teachers.
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Gomes, who has moved up to second place this week in polls of voter intentions, explained his plan to help the 63 million people listed as delinquent debtors by Brazil's SPC Credit Reporting Agency.
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Lawyers for debtors have said it is common practice for debt collection companies to attempt to recoup debt that is not legally recoverable under state law unless the creditor actually agrees to pay it.
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RIP Medical Debt is able to buy debt for pennies on the dollar because healthcare providers sell it to them at a deeply discount price when they can&apost collect it from debtors themselves.
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Felicia Perlman joined the Chicago law firm after two decades with Skadden, according to her LinkedIn profile, where she counseled Ball Metal Food Container Corp and debtors for Millennium Lab Holdings in bankruptcy cases.
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Analysts told CNBC that the continued struggles among oil and gas debtors could lead to the banks — among the largest in Southeast Asia — setting aside more money for potential losses, which threatens their bottom lines.
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"It has become apparent that the debtors will not reorganize under a plan but instead will pursue a sale," Klyman said in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday, according to the Journal.
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With the single touch of his giant red button, CARP gave the portfolio of 9,000 debtors' personal information to RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit that forgives medical debt with no tax consequences for the debtor.
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In an email to Reuters, it cited a drop in pending enforcement cases, faster processing times and a boost in loan recoveries from a new electronic system for seizing cash from overdue debtors' bank accounts.
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Admitting that it violated federal law, Citibank also acknowledged that it had no policy in place to notify the debtors that collection rights on their credit card account had been transferred to a different company.
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What it doesn't convey is Jefferson's populist resistance to an economic plan that, in his view, supported the rule of commercial oligarchs who manipulated credit and currency at the expense of debtors and yeoman farmers.
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Dion's nemesis, the wiseguy Patrick Woijchik, is a dapper, finicky figure out of a Damon Runyon story who somehow carries a huge pair of pliers in his suit, for the extraction of teeth from debtors.
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"The objecting parties have been severely impacted by the debtors bankruptcy cases and are now being pushed closer to insolvency as a result of the proposed treatment under the plan," Sarachek wrote in the filing.
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Her office said hiring a firm with no prior involvement in the case might drag out negotiations on a possible global settlement, waste time that lawyers already spent and unnecessarily deplete the debtors' limited resources.
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More than two dozen groups sent a letter to Mr. Koskinen last year urging the agency to adopt additional safeguards, such as excluding debtors whose incomes are less than 250 percent of the poverty level.
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In the wake of the financial crisis, he took over a portfolio of underperforming loans, offering the debtors a choice: They could hand over their property, and he would release them from their personal guarantee.
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Op-Ed Contributor Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions retracted an Obama-era guidance to state courts that was meant to end debtors' prisons, where people who are too poor to pay fines are sent.
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The question remains, as MBS takes the stage in Riyadh to a massively more nervous and diminished crowd of debtors and very pragmatic investors: can his grip on Saudi Arabia be lessened in any way?
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This will mean that when coal prices recover, AKT will repay its approved debtors first and only then will it hand cash up to the parent, which in turn should pay the bank - delaying any repayment.
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An Illinois woman can pursue a class action that accuses debt-collector Midland Credit Management of withholding information from nearly 69,000 debtors about their rights under U.S. law, a federal judge in Chicago ruled on Friday.
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Many lenders' business models relied on "sweatbox lending", in which debtors were encouraged to take out new loans again and again when they entered or neared default, says Joseph Spooner of the London School of Economics.
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The number of debtors who cited medical issues as a contributing reason for their bankruptcy actually increased slightly after the law's implementation — 67.5 percent in the three years following the law's adoption versus 65.5 percent prior.
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Four Maryland residents who had defaulted on car loans filed a proposed class action in 2012 in federal court, accusing Santander of violations of the debt collection law including misrepresenting debt loads and bypassing debtors' lawyers.
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Check out our documentary about debtors' prisons in America Darron Yates, a 48-year old black man unemployed save for the occasional odd job, recalled a court-ordered shakedown that began one evening this past January.
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In part two of VICE's investigation into modern-day debtors' prison practices, we meet Thomas Barrett, a former homeless man who has paid thousands in probation fees over the theft of a $2 can of beer.
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In addition to helping end Mississippi debtors' prisons with Right on Crime, they are pushing for bills that allow returning citizens to check in with parole officers by video, so that crucial work hours aren't disrupted.
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Bret: The biggest mistake deficit hawks make is to suppose that creditors own their debtors — now in vogue among those who think that we are at Beijing's mercy because they own so much U.S. government debt.
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Pirro Schwarzman, who was formerly a partner in the restructuring group at Kirkland & Ellis, will focus on representing debtors in out-of-court restructurings, Chapter 11 bankruptcies and distressed acquisitions, Ropes & Gray said in a statement.
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High household debt remained a concern but was not yet at the point where it could turn into a major crisis, the BOK noted, although debtors in the lowest income bracket were vulnerable to higher interest rates.
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In 2017 a county in the eastern province of Jiangsu introduced automated messages that would be heard by people who made phone calls to blacklisted debtors, telling them to "urge the person to fulfil his legal obligations".
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Wanted posters for fugitive debtors, not commercials, are the main images that flash up on a big electronic screen in downtown Yixing, in the heart of the faltering Chinese industrial powerhouse that is the Yangtze River Delta.
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Kanhai said ZAMCO was issuing Treasury Bills to the banks at a discount and would restructure the loans by reducing interest charges and extending the repayment period for debtors, who are mostly companies that borrowed from banks.
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I confess I was not immune—as embarrassing as that is to admit when you're someone who chanted "this is what democracy looks like" with Occupy Wall Street and helped organize a populist revolt of student debtors.
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"Even considering various restructuring options, there is no realistic scenario in which the debtors can continue to perform under the lease agreements and not experience debilitating losses," FirstEnergy Generation LLC President Donald Moul said in the papers.
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The Supreme Court ruling that held law firms could not seek payment from debtors for defending fees also applies to other professionals hired in bankruptcy cases, according to the U.S. trustee in Sports Authority's Chapter 11 case.
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Four Maryland residents who defaulted on car loans filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Santander in 2012 in federal court alleging violations of the debt collection law, such as misrepresenting debt loads and bypassing debtors' lawyers.
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"It's counterintuitive; with market cap indexing, you end up with the most exposure to the largest debtors," said Rick Harper, head of fixed income at Wisdom Tree Asset Management, one of the trailblazers in "smart beta" funds.
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And while some students say they're glad for the chance to be treated as investments, not debtors, income share agreements don't change the fact that the students will owe tens of thousands of dollars for their degrees.
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Committees for shareholders typically do not get court approval in Chapter 11 cases because debtors have to pay the costs for a committee's lawyers and advisors, who try to prove equity holders are entitled to a recovery.
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Ontario, one of the world's largest sub-sovereign debtors, has launched a 7-year green bond with an issue size of C$500 million, a representative for the province's finance ministry said, confirming an earlier Reuters report.
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The move means Schiffer and Perez will be able keep the club open for the time being, as Chapter 11 bankruptcy allows a business to remain operational while its debtors look for a way to restructure ailing finances.
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The question in the case is whether Obduskey is entitled to legal protections for debtors provided by Congress in 1977, or whether the foreclosure is exempt because it is Obduskey's home, and not money, that is at stake.
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Creditors tried to ensure that they would be repaid in real terms via monetary systems (the gold standard, fixed exchange rates); debtors argued for a more flexible monetary approach (think William Jennings Bryan and his free silver campaign).
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For example, a belief that house prices will always go up makes buyers willing to pay high prices for homes, and banks more willing to lend; the resulting enthusiasm among debtors and creditors duly pushes house prices higher.
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"Absent additional financing, I believe the debtors could be forced to liquidate on a highly expedited basis," said a court filing by Eric Koza, a managing director at the restructuring firm Zolfo Cooper, which has been advising Avaya.
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"The RBI is at a fairly advanced stage of preparing a list of those debtors where a resolution is required through the IBC (Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code) process and you'll shortly be hearing about it," Jaitley told reporters.
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State media said the king laid the foundation for new or planned projects worth $1.12 billion and ordered the release of some people from debtors' prison in Qassim, a conservative province in the heart of the Arabian peninsula.
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IKB may fetch around 500 million euros ($13 million) or about half of its book value, one of the sources said, while other people said IKB's real value was hard to judge due to warrants held by debtors.
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They lay out a stringent timeline for resolution, or force debtors into automatic liquidation, giving outsize influence to vendors and suppliers who would normally rank well below secured financial creditors, such as lender banks, in any bankruptcy process.
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Many of the country's most powerful companies have looked dead and buried under a mountain of debt, only to be revived by biddable state-run banks willing to "extend (terms) and pretend (that politically connected debtors will pay)".
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The collection agency Rumson, Bolling & Associates was sued in 2011 after harassing debtors' family members, co-workers, and neighbors, as well as threatening to "desecrate the bodies of deceased relatives" if they failed to pay off funeral bills.
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A few months ago I wrote about a little startup called Collectly going after the big, inefficient debt collection industry by using modern tools to ease the process for debtors while also increasing the amount of money recovered.
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"We are confident that we would prevail at a trial on the merits, but due to the exigencies of these cases and the dire financial condition of the debtors, we do not have that time," Mr. Rosenthal said.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Creditor countries must do more to support global demand as interest rates rise, making it more expensive for debtors to pay their dues, European Central Bank policymaker Pablo Hernandez de Cos said on Thursday.
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"In addition to strengthening investors' confidence with the local market, the new law will raise the value of the debtors' assets, since they will not be obliged to sell for low prices through an enforced liquidation," Ismail said.
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The call scripts those agencies are using — obtained by a group of Democratic senators and reviewed by The New York Times — shed light on how the tax agency's new fleet of private debt collectors extract payments from debtors.
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In other words, access to bankruptcy not only benefits specific debtors, it boosts the overall economy by encouraging a robust financial system and ensuring that people who fail or experience bad luck can move on with their lives.
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Unhelpfully, the Electricity Company of Ghana, a state-run monopoly, is comically bad at collecting money from its customers — especially from other state-run institutions like the police and the oil refinery, which are among its largest debtors.
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At CommonBond, where you can refinance loans ranging from $5,000 to as much as $53,000, part of that experience includes a program for debtors who find themselves in economic hardship, according to co-founder and CEO David Klein.
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The miner, which has been fixing its balance sheet following years of pouring millions of dollars to revive its flagship Cullinan mine, said its net debt adjusted for diamond debtors stood at $541 million as of June 30.
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"The only lever that appears to have been effective in pressuring the debtors to attempt to move the plan process forward has been the ongoing threat of an alternative plan," the groups said in a filing last week.
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China has provided billions of dollars of loans for infrastructure projects to a host of Sub-Saharan African nations as part of its sweeping Belt & Road initiative in recent years, with Zambia one of its most prominent debtors.
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Midland Credit Management, one of the country's biggest debt collectors, on Tuesday was hit with a proposed class action accusing it of creating a false sense of urgency for debtors by labeling letters to them as time sensitive.
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Many debtors are paying in the range of 6 percent to 8 percent on their loans today, according to certified financial planner Douglas A. Boneparth, president and founder of Bone Fide Wealth, while some are paying higher rates.
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Or they may simply determine the time has come to swap debt for equity, a popular strategy that allows drillers to clean up their balance sheets and lets some debtors wait out the rebound in oil prices as stockholders.
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Despite all that, Trump argued: "We have a lot of power," alluding to the old saying that debtors have the problem if they owe a bank $100, but the bank has the problem if a debtor owes $100 million.
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To the outside world, he presented the image of a successful real-estate developer, but he was also a person so feared by his debtors that they refused to call the police on him even as their lives crumbled.
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In court papers filed on Wednesday, the U.S. trustee argued Seadrill's cash-management plan should be rejected because it is at odds with the Bankruptcy Code requiring debtors to keep funds with financial institutions backed by the U.S. government.
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Debtors prison: a practice that was outlawed by Congress and ruled as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, yet, remains alive and well in most states — but California is the latest state to begin pursuing a change to this framework.
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The data showed that most of the debtors had earned middle-class incomes before encountering a financial calamity, such as the loss of a breadwinner's job, and that they often spent months trying to recover while incurring more debt.
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It is important to get these voters beyond the shame of debt, perhaps by allowing student debtors to be able to declare bankruptcy related to student loans, something that is nearly impossible to do now, and obtain debt forgiveness.
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In other words, access to bankruptcy not only benefits specific debtors, it boosts the overall economy by both encouraging a robust financial system and ensuring that people who fail or experience bad luck can move on with their lives.
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According to the U.S. trustee's office, the plans proposed by Cumulus look to be a way to retain the employees as the company works on its restructuring instead of a way to reward performance as required for Chapter 11 debtors.
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Terms like "bonds" and "trust" and "mutual funds" are now used by bankers to describe financial structures and agreements; solidarity turns such notions around to strengthen the ties among a community of debtors instead of affirming a contract with a creditor.
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A Chapter 218 filing in Colorado, if approved by the court, allows debtors to hold onto and keep making payments on assets such as a house and car but offers a "fresh start" by eliminating other debts, according to ColoradoBankruptcy.com.
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With 200 million surveillance cameras — more than four times as many in the United States — China's facial-recognition systems track members of the Uighur Muslim minority, block the entrances to housing complexes, and shame debtors by displaying their faces on billboards.
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The case illustrates how small creditors and vendors, previously at the mercy of large debtors, are now using India's new bankruptcy code as a pressure ploy to secure payment of dues that would earlier have been all but impossible to recover.
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The NCA opened an inquiry last year into the National Asset Management Agency's (NAMA) 1.3 billion pound sale in 2014 of its entire portfolio of loans belonging to Northern Ireland-based debtors to U.S. private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management.
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To tackle the bad loan problem, the commission will also propose by Spring legislative measures to facilitate banks' recovery of soured credit, which could include "permission for banks to agree with business debtors on swift out-of-court collateral foreclosure".
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"These insurance proceeds are the very heart of these Chapter 11 cases: the sooner the debtors (PES) can recover, the sooner the business can complete its recovery," PES said in a filing, signed by its chief restructuring officer, Jeffrey Stein.
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Authorities have tried to raise awareness about the depth of the problem, launching a campaign titled "Debt is Disgraceful" in 2013 that saw donations collected to help pay money owed by debtors in prison or others threatened with criminal charges.
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"Unfortunately, the facts of the debtors' situation lead to the inevitable conclusion that the ability to pay all creditors and return any value to equity holders is entirely unlikely," Homer Parkhill, a managing director at Rothschild Inc said in court papers.
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In an analysis of data from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey, Daniel Cooper and J. Christina Wang of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston noted that young debtors were less likely to own a home than their debt-free peers.
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If the Fed sticks to its current inflation target of 2%, a policy rate of 0% would translate into a real cost of borrowing of minus 2% (because the money debtors repay will be worth less than the money they borrowed).
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All three institutions have pointed to bad loans as a major problem, calling for a crackdown on delinquent debtors, particularly strategic defaulters (who have money but do not pay) and the development of a market where bad loans could be traded.
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By creating a more personalized outreach and collection strategy, the company attempts to provide people who owe money with appropriately structured repayment solutions that allow clients to recoup some of their losses, even if debtors can't pay the whole amount owed.
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"The main reasons are the weak fiscal positions in most countries...and the excessive credit growth over the past 10 years that has affected banks and debtors and now causes credit growth to be in a clear downtrend," said Bakkum.
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Debt BB then codes an algorithm to ensure fewer loan defaulters by targeting individuals through the use of big data, placing job ads on web pages they frequent so that the debtors can make money to pay off the debt.
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Some have also said that the Sanders plan, which calls to cancel the loans of all student debtors, regardless of income, is too favorable to people like doctors and lawyers who make even more money than the typical college graduate.
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It's fine to say that the key "lies in the capacity of debtors to think and act collectively" — but it's still far from clear what we should collectively think and how we should collectively act to overthrow the regime of debt.
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Ontario, one of the world's largest sub-sovereign debtors, priced on Wednesday a C$500 million 7-year green bond, the finance ministry said, with strong demand helping the province to borrow at a better rate than for its regular bonds.
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Just last year, ArchCity Defenders reached a $4.75 million settlement in a debtors' prison class action lawsuit against the city of Jennings, which borders Ferguson, for illegally jailing people who were unable to pay traffic tickets or minor ordinance violations.
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The latest Education Department figures reveal that thanks to skyrocketing education costs, living expenses, crippling interest rates and additional fees, more graduates expected to join the club of debtors who may not ever pay back their loans, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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In 2014 a federal court ordered the city to end what was effectively a municipal debtors' prison, although critics say the city's Black residents are still targeted with discriminatory practices like ticket stacking, when cops issue multiple tickets at one traffic stop.
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RELATED: Trump: 'I'm smart' for not paying taxes When the economy and the real estate market plummeted in 1990, real estate attorney Alan Pomerantz said Trump owed $4 billion to his debtors, including almost a billion for which he was personally responsible.
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Central banks should thus swap their inflation targets for something better—we favour a target for nominal GDP, a measure that is more closely tied to the fortunes of debtors and investors—and they should search for new sources of monetary ammunition.
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Colombian regulators will stipulate a process for the forbearance of loans that allows for modifications to initial loan conditions (interest rate, term) when a debtors' payment ability has been affected by the economic cycle or other specific hardships as determined by the bank.
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They argue that the long-lasting and corrosive side effects of below-zero interest rates - which punish savers, destabilize the banking sector and encourage systemic risk-inducing financial engineering - far outweigh the benefits of governments and other big debtors being paid to borrow.
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For 10 days ending last Friday, the names, ID numbers, addresses, case numbers and amounts owed by 20 people, either individual debtors or the heads of companies, were flashed across screens at the two main Shanghai railway stations at 10 minute intervals.
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Mitsotakis, who came to power on July 7 unseating leftist leader Alexis Tsipras, called on debtors to "take advantage of a very generous repayment scheme" adding that it was a last chance for such flexibility and that future schemes would have stricter terms.
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"The RBI is at a fairly advanced stage of preparing a list of those debtors where a resolution is required through the IBC (Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code) process and you'll shortly be hearing about it," Jaitley told reporters after meeting bank chief executives.
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Northern Ireland police opened a criminal inquiry last year into the sale by Ireland's state-run "bad bank", the National Asset Management Agency, of its entire portfolio of loans belonging to Northern Ireland-based debtors to U.S. private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management.
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While most debt collection agencies still use paper mailings and phone calls in their attempts to recover their clients' money, Collectly is moving its interactions online, tracking and collecting data from debtors in how they respond — or don't respond — to its outreach.
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Under Tennessee law, debt collectors can seize up to a quarter of debtors' take-home pay, and in Shelby County, which contains Memphis, they sought to do so in over 21,000 cases in 2015, according to a ProPublica analysis of court records.
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As things stand now, many student debtors are not getting the help they're entitled to, in part because the companies that are paid by the federal government to collect student loans fail to tell struggling borrowers how to enroll in the repayment plan.
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Last year, the Debt Collective, which has bought up millions of dollars in student loan debt and medical debt and advocates for broad debt cancellation, published a memo urging the Education Department to settle with student debtors or stop collecting payments entirely.
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According to The New York Times, National Collegiate, a conglomeration of 15 trusts that hold 800,4.53 private student loans worth $12 billion, has recently lost multiple court cases due to bad paperwork — effectively clearing dozens of debtors of the money they owe.
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Lawyers for debtors have said it is commonplace for debt collection companies, which buy consumer debt at pennies on the dollar, to try to recoup debt that is not legally recoverable under state law unless the creditor actually agrees to pay it.
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This research was the seed of what would become Reset Button, a new startup founded by Iuliano and Rob Hunter looking to help student loan debtors who have gone through bankruptcy find a new way to include those debts in their filing.
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Kraninger was questioned about decisions made under her predecessor, Mick Mulvaney, as well as about the bureau's role in protecting service members and student debtors -- and was at one point asked to calculate the annual percentage rate on a hypothetical payday loan.
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A key euro zone argument in seeking a less dogmatic line from the IMF on debt relief than the Fund applies in other cases is that unlike most of the IMF's debtors, Greece can count on the euro zone to avert bankruptcy.
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Once the sales and the payments to banks and debtors are done, Manafort still must pay about $17 million to the federal government: $11 million of it goes to the US Treasury, while $6 million he'll send to the IRS, for back taxes.
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Consumer groups suggest that debtors who cannot pay off their monthly credit card balances transfer the debt onto a card that does not charge interest for several months, and then clear the amount owed before the card switches to a variable rate.
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"Now in their fourth year (six years considering their pre-bankruptcy efforts), the debtors have already explored and exhausted numerous options for exit, including a sale, and face further protracted proceedings with creditor recoveries rapidly diminishing daily," Elliott wrote in its lawsuit.
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Europe cannot survive as a free-for-all, everyone for themselves, or as an Austerity Union built on de-politicised economic decision-making with a fig leaf of federalism in which some countries are condemned to permanent depression and debtors are denied democratic rights.
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"... Given Thiel's long history of vindictive conduct against the Debtors and the fact that his interests are plainly adverse to those of the estate while the Thiel Claims are being investigated, the Plan Administrator has legitimate concerns regarding Thiel's participation in the sale process."
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In this installment of Justice—VICE's web series that investigates the winners and losers of the for-profit criminal justice system—we examine how local governments turn policing into profit to create modern-day debtors' prisons, and meet some of the people fighting back.
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Banks have been able to cut about 22.8 billion euros ($23 billion) a year, slashing over a third of their non-performing loans since a 22 peak, through write-downs, selling bad loan portfolios and agreements with debtors, and the trend is here to stay.
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Critics of the plan, including National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson, say the notices to debtors often come at the same time the State Department is notified of the taxpayer's debt, in some cases leaving not enough time to resolve tax issues before passport problems occur.
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When people cannot pay the fines and fees, they often end up facing heavy sanctions, which paradoxically include more fines and fees, along with drivers license suspensions, loss of the right to vote or, worst of all, incarceration in a de facto debtors prison.
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Rising rates in the United States have squeezed debtors in emerging economies from Argentina to Turkey and the euro zone has some issues of its own with borrowing costs surging in Italy due to worries about the new government's plans to raise its deficit.
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And then I'd realize I'd given birth to a human being while living in a fourth-floor walkup, attending Debtors Anonymous — an amazing program I cannot endorse highly enough — and hoping that my husband could someday forgive me for my extended period of deception.
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While doing such a thing seems to be a sensible approach — and a common maneuver in other governmental bankruptcies — some debtors fear that this entity could be given the power to haircut both general obligation and instrumentality debt as part of any spending cuts.
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Both the early English settlers and the American Revolutionaries lived in profoundly class-ridden societies, with downtrodden (and sometimes cruelly disciplined) servants and restive debtors and runaways, yet official American history identifies with the rulers of these hierarchical societies as if they were middle-class democrats.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether firms collecting on debt they bought for pennies on the dollar can be held liable in lawsuits brought by debtors they targeted under a federal law cracking down on debt collectors' abusive practices.
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Few attorneys are likely to express this paternalistic view as bluntly as Ray, but the idea that bankruptcy courts should rehabilitate debtors instead of simply freeing them of their debts dates back to the 1930s, when, buoyed by creditors' lobbying efforts, Chapter 13 first became law.
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All four of the collection companies hired by the I.R.S. — CBE Group, ConServe, Performant Recovery and Pioneer — tell debtors that they can set up an installment plan lasting as long as seven years, two years longer than the span that private collectors are legally allowed to offer.
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Rejecting and assuming the power purchase agreements (PPAs) "will play a vital role in the reorganized debtors' post-emergence operations and financial profile," PG&E said in an adversary proceeding complaint that followed its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California.
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To combat debtors who refuse to pay, Chinese courts are also increasingly using a 2014 law which allows judges to prohibit a person who avoids paying a debt from going on vacation, sending their children to private school, doing expensive renovations and flying or taking the train, lawyers said.
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For the millions of Americans who owe tens of billions of dollars in court debt, this could dramatically change rules that have created a system of modern-day debtors' prisons across the country by trapping the poor in a vicious cycle of court fees, fines and excessive cash bail.
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In our work to fight against debtors' prisons, we have found these problems greatest in the South, where many black and poor defendants are subject to jailing, repeated arrests, aggressive collection efforts and suspension of driver's licenses for low-level offenses like writing a bad check for under $20.
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NEW YORK, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether firms collecting on debt they bought for pennies on the dollar can be held liable in lawsuits brought by debtors they targeted under a federal law cracking down on debt collectors' abusive practices.
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While effective credit losses in this business line are historically very low due to the presence of good collateral and guarantee structures, problems in the debtors' repayment capacity arise from time to time, which could lead to loan restructurings and additional challenges in terms of asset liability management.
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In addition to serving time in prison, Manafort is turning over more than $36 million in assets — including five properties in New York, three bank accounts, and one life insurance policy — to the federal government and to his debtors, plus an additional $17 million he owes the federal government.
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" In contrast with Brookstone's mall store locations, Tribou further explains in the document why its airport stores remain open: "Unlike the mall stores, consistent foot traffic, a captive consumer audience and limited seasonality has allowed these stores to thrive (on an aggregate level) in comparison to the Debtors' mall stores.
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Saba, run by the fund manager Boaz Weinstein, was up primarily on positions that benefited from volatility — a combination of holdings that included equity put options in Europe and Asia and credit-default swaps, or insurance policies on debtors unable to pay off their debts, one of these people said.
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The U.S. watchdog for consumer finances unveiled on Thursday a major proposal to toughen regulation of the multibillion-dollar debt collection industry, with a focus on keeping agencies from pushing people to pay debts they do not owe, informing borrowers of their rights and cutting down on calls to debtors.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. watchdog for consumer finances unveiled on Thursday a proposal to toughen regulation of the multibillion-dollar debt collection industry, with a focus on keeping agencies from pushing people to pay debts they do not owe, informing borrowers of their rights and cutting down on calls to debtors.
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But as Mr Tsoukalis explains, part of the purpose of the priest-sinner analogy is to make a broad point about the euro crisis: in adopting such a sacerdotal stance, Mr Schäuble is unhelpfully implying that every single drop of the responsibility for the financial crisis lies with the debtors.
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But the modest progress in Mississippi has not necessarily been mirrored in other states — in recent months, attorneys in Arkansas and Pennsylvania have filed lawsuits accusing a judge and the Commonwealth of facilitating "debtors' prisons," and in Missouri, Ferguson officials are still fighting a class-action suit first filed in 2015.
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Within the euro zone, a rift between austerity-hit southern states on the one hand and Germany and its rich northern allies blew up this week when the Dutch chair of the zone's finance ministers appeared to liken the debtors to a spendthrift who blew his cash on "booze and women".
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Then Citibank sold the loans and the borrowers' names, addresses, social security numbers and other sensitive information to debt collectors AND after selling the credit accounts to third party collectors, to the debt buyers, Citibank continued to collect payments from the debtors and kept the funds for itself despite not owning the debt.
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This anecdote about a young man being approached by what amount to legal loan sharks illustrates how someone could quickly get in big trouble with debtors: At a Samsung smartphone shop in a mall in Shanghai, 31-year-old Lin Wenjie is considering which phone to buy when a saleswoman approaches him with a suggestion.
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"The oversight board has alternated between slow-walking a proper investigation into potential causes of action relating to Puerto Ricos debt issuances, actively obstructing the committees own efforts to investigate the debtors prior conduct and indebtedness, and simply allowing causes of action to lapse by failing to anticipate and meet statutory deadlines," the motion stated.
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"The sale will hedge the estates' downside exposure on the appeal and any further proceedings against the defendants at a reasonable price; … provide much needed liquidity to the debtors' estates; and guarantee that there will be funds available to pay long-suffering general unsecured creditors irrespective of the outcome of the appeal," Buchwald wrote.
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Like García Padilla, Rosselló, an elected official who must answer to interest groups and voters on the island, is likely to prefer that the creditors endure more pain rather than less, and the opposite for the Puerto Rico debtors; and that the pain perceived by the latter be blamed on others rather than himself.
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"The current study found no evidence that the ACA reduced the proportion of bankruptcies driven by medical problems: 65.5 percent of debtors cited a medical contributor to their bankruptcy in the period prior to the ACA's implementation as compared to 67.5 percent in the three years after the law came into effect," the study notes.
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WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. watchdog for consumer finances unveiled on Thursday a major proposal to toughen regulation of the multibillion-dollar debt collection industry, with a focus on keeping agencies from pushing people to pay debts they do not owe, informing borrowers of their rights and cutting down on calls to debtors.
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"The oversight board has alternated between slow-walking a proper investigation into potential causes of action relating to Puerto Rico's debt issuances, actively obstructing the committee's own efforts to investigate the debtors' prior conduct and indebtedness, and simply allowing causes of action to lapse by failing to anticipate and meet statutory deadlines," the motion stated.
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Enter into restructuring support agreements with CEOC's major creditor groups * RSAS with first lien bank lenders, first lien noteholders, second lien noteholders effective immediately * Announcement paves way toward a confirmable plan for debtors and a successful conclusion to CEOC's bankruptcy proceedings in 2017 * RSA with first lien noteholders will terminate automatically on October 14, 2016 Source text for Eikon:
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In a not so veiled threat, Bishop did state in his letter to the oversight board that any certified fiscal plan should reflect the board as the sole representative of debtors (that is, the government of Puerto Rico), and that any attempt by the commonwealth to circumvent this uniformity of representation should be met with appropriate budget reductions.
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Despite Beijing and Nairobi's vehement denials, concerns over the loans speak to a growing fear in many developing countries that their governments, in rushing to cash in on China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), have left themselves overextended, with Chinese state-owned companies ready to snap up ports, railways and other key infrastructure across the globe should debtors default.
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Because congressional action was required to overcome political constraints in the commonwealth, a compromise in 2016 between Congress and the Obama administration — the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) — created an oversight board with debt-restructuring powers and a formal legal process to deal with emerging disputes between the creditors and commonwealth debtors.
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LENDERS AND NOTEHOLDERS - PROPOSAL INTENDED TO WORK WITH EXISTING RESTRUCTURING SUPPORT AGREEMENT DISCUSSIONS * IHEARTCOMMUNICATIONS CREDITORS - ON ACCOUNT OF $1.159 BILLION NEW CASH INVESTMENT UNDER PLAN, LIBERTY & SIRIUS, WILL RECEIVE 40 PERCENT OF NEW COMMON SHARES * IHEARTCOMMUNICATIONS CREDITORS-DEBTORS TO USE CASH COLLATERAL/GET POSTPETITION FINANCING UNDER TERMS AGREED WITH SECURED CREDITORS,ACCEPTABLE TO LIBERTY Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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More than two-thirds of the defrauded student debtors said they struggled to get a mortgage or auto loan, half of them said the uncertainty around whether or not their debt will be cancelled has caused them to delay marriage or children, and nearly all of them said their lives are worse off today than before they went to school.
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"By and through the Sale Motion and the Notice of Assumption, the Debtors assert that there are no defaults to cure in order to assume the Agreements, however, there are numerous uncured monetary and non-monetary defaults under the Agreements that must be cured as a condition to any assumption or assignment of the Agreements," Tarantino's lawyers said, according to the outlet.
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What's new: Greece defaulted on $111 billion owed to the EU. (The European Stability Mechanism allowed Greece to push back its debt service payments and reduce the interest rate it was paying, which counts as a debt default for the purposes of the database.) The other big debtors in 2018: Venezuela with $64 billion of debt in default and Iraq with $41 billion.
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