On Friday, the Florida Office of Financial Regulation closed Marco Community Bank, headquartered in Marco Island, Florida, and the FDIC was named receiver. As receiver, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Mutual of Omaha Bank., headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, to assume all of the deposits of Marco Community Bank.
Yesterday, the FDIC announced that it had entered into a purchase and assumption agreement to assume the assets and deposits of the recently created Independent Bankers’ Bank Bridge Bank (IBBBB). IBBBB was created by the FDIC on December 18, 2009, to take over the operations of The Independent Bankers’ Bank, headquartered in Springfield, Illinois.
On Monday, the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) released a report entitled “Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties.” The report examines certain transactions related to the rescue of AIG, including the creation of Maiden Lane III, a limited liability company formed last year to facilitate the purchase of assets from counterparties of AIG Financia
Today, the Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation closed Warren Bank, headquartered in Warren, Michigan, and the FDIC was named as receiver.
Today, in the sixth largest bank failure in U.S.
This morning, General Motors Corp. (GM) announced in a Form 8-K filing that the U.S. Treasury Department has proposed details of a reorganization plan to GM in the event that GM seeks bankruptcy protection and bankruptcy court approval for the sale of substantially all of its assets to a newly organized company (New GM) pursuant to Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code (363 Sale). Following the proposed 363 Sale, the U.S.
Earlier this week, Barclays Capital Inc., the investment banking unit and capital markets unit of Barclays plc, and Lehman Brothers Inc., the brokerage unit of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., entered into a settlement under which Barclays Capital will receive approximately $689 million in cash and securities for securities belonging to customers of Lehman Brothers that were never transferred when Barclays plc closed the sale for Lehman Brothers on Septemb
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Wellness International Network Ltd. v. Sharif confirms the long-held and common sense belief that “knowing and voluntary consent” is the key to the exercise of judicial authority by a bankruptcy court judge.1 In short, the Supreme Court held that a litigant in a bankruptcy court can consent—expressly or impliedly through waiver—to the bankruptcy court’s final adjudication of claims that the bankruptcy court otherwise lacks constitutional authority to finally decide.
In In re Cook, 2014 Bankr. LEXIS 67 (B.A.P. 8th Cir. Jan.