The whole point of crisis management was to avoid risks to the system and thus bankruptcy.

Banks capital, therefore, is what stands between bad loans and insolvency.

A sovereign default () is the failure or refusal of the government of a sovereign state to pay back its debt in full.

Bankruptcy Comes to China

Down and Out in Athens and Brussels

Sami declared bankruptcy.

Global Economic Cooperation or Bust

Banks were on the verge of bankruptcy and nationalization.

For some, low prices would render them insolvent.

In the absence of a sovereign bankruptcy procedure, a coordinated solution which debt exchanges and CACs are designed to facilitate is the best option.

The Bankrupt Theology of Financial Deregulation

As the economy improves, failure is less likely.

Bankruptcy should allow local governments to renegotiate their bond debt and, perhaps, their retired employees pension and health care costs (that s up to a bankruptcy judge).

In the US, the main design defects are in bankruptcy law, which exempts derivatives and repos from most regular bankruptcy constraints.

That is what destroyed AIG, and what led to the recent bankruptcy of Abitibi Bowater and the pending bankruptcy of General Motors.

Bankruptcy laws were amended to introduce a system of partial indentured servitude.

A number of countries have implemented reforms to bankruptcy law.

He therefore sets an average premium too high for healthy contributors and too low for unhealthy ones. This will drive out the healthy contributors, saddling the insurer with a portfolio of bad risks the quick road to bankruptcy.

Short of a miracle, Greece looks close to insolvency.

Employed in the civil division as president of the bankruptcy division and the civil petition chamber.

Essentially, this is a form of bankruptcy, but with more administrative discretion (and presumably more protection for depositors) than would be possible in a court supervised process.

That is why, for domestic debt disputes, countries have bankruptcy laws and courts.

As the downturn deepens, several countries may, for example, face bankruptcy.

Or consider bankruptcies and defaults by households and firms.

They remain badly in need of protection from the threat of insolvency.

Despite communism s ideological bankruptcy, China has not changed in this regard.

At the same time, in bankruptcies, it is important to safeguard productive assets.

The successful implementation of China s revised Bankruptcy Law hinges on its effective enforcement and abandonment of the mindset and practices shaped under the old version, especially in the era of policy based bankruptcy.

In a domestic setting, bankruptcy and default are common.

Most public sector industries have been near bankruptcy until saved by competition and privatization.

In the early ninties Marimekko was in a bad financial condition and was considered ready for bankruptcy.

When private borrowers default, bankruptcy courts supervise a bankruptcy or reorganization process through which even unsecured creditors can hope to recover something.

Compared with the original bankruptcy code, the 2006 code is firmly rooted in the needs of a market economy.

A weaker economy means more bankruptcies and home foreclosures and higher unemployment.

The purpose of the loan was to avert bankruptcy, stabilise the currency and improve Austria's general economic condition.

The modalities could draw on the principles laid out in national bankruptcy procedures.

The only reasonable alternative is to make large, complex financial institutions smaller and less complex so that it is possible for them to fail under standard bankruptcy rules. This is the intent of Dodd Frank.

But to save a financial system from collapse requires preventing all banks from failing at the same time.

Second, bankruptcy reform is needed to allow homeowners to write down the value of their homes and stay in their houses.

Entrepreneurs are greedy by definition if they were not, they would go bankrupt.

One day you get bankruptcy, another day loans with few strings attached.

US bankruptcy rates are already up 33 over four years ago.

Rather, the banking system is at the brink of insolvency, with a permanent loss in equity capital.

Official bankruptcy, a regular occurrence, required prolonging maturities on state debt and reducing interest payments.

Irish banks reportedly need an additional 24 billion to stay afloat.