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Some of the UK’s largest banks are in a stand-off with the government over whether they should hand over millions of pounds in compensation to the creditors of people who bought payment protection insurance and later went bankrupt, the Financial Times reported. The Official Receiver, part of the government’s Insolvency Service, submitted tens of thousands of complaints about PPI before a deadline for compensation claims last month.

Thomas Cook’s management team is facing a new challenge in its battle to save the 178-year-old travel group: credit default swaps, the Financial Times reported. The UK-based tour operator agreed the main terms of a £900m rescue deal with its biggest shareholders and lenders last month, after failing to adjust to a big shift by customers from the high street to the internet. But now the company is looking to push back a crucial meeting with its bondholders, originally set for Wednesday this week, partly out of fear that a group of hedge funds will block the deal.

Global investors are starting to fall out of love with Narendra Modi. After pouring $45 billion into India’s stock market over the past six years on hopes that Modi would unleash the country’s economic potential, international money managers are now unwinding those wagers at the fastest pace on record, Bloomberg News reported. They’ve sold $4.5 billion of Indian shares since June, on course for the biggest quarterly exodus since at least 1999.

A unit of Reliance Communications Ltd., Anil Ambani’s distressed telecom firm, has filed for bankruptcy protection. GCX Ltd., which owns the world’s largest private undersea cable system, is the latest company owned by the tycoon to stumble, Bloomberg News reported. The former billionaire’s Reliance Communications itself fell back into bankruptcy earlier this year. The move by subsidiary GCX comes after it missed payment on its $350 million of 7% bonds that matured on Aug. 1.

Ronan Ryan and his former Miss Ireland wife, Pamela Flood, had never heard of the personal insolvency regime when they both signed a consent agreement to give back their Dublin home to so-called vulture fund Tanager, the High Court heard today, BreakingNews.ie reported. Ryan had appealed against Judge Jacqueline Linnane’s Circuit court order allowing Tanager re-possess 136 Mount Prospect Avenue, Clontarf, even when he had insolvency court protection from every one of his creditors.

CO2 Solutions Inc. ("CO2 Solutions" or the "'Corporation") announced today that it has filed a notice of intention to make a proposal (the "Notice") pursuant to the provisions of Part III of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada), Yahoo! Finance reported. Pursuant to the Notice, Ernst and Young Inc. ("E&Y") has been appointed as trustee and will assist CO2 Solutions in its restructuring efforts.

A bill is in the making in Latvia over insolvency for small debtors who can't repay what they owe, LSM reported. There are about 40,000 such debtors in Latvia, according to the Finance Latvia Association, which says that debts shouldn't be pardoned fully under the proposed law, instead requiring even the small debtors to cover 10 to 15% of the sum. The bill in question is currently being reviewed at the Justice Ministry.

Insolvent German wind turbine manufacturer Senvion on Monday agreed on exclusive talks with Siemens Gamesa over the sale of a substantial part of its business, Reuters reported. Senvion, which is in self-administration after becoming insolvent in April, said it planned to hammer out a final deal on certain services and onshore assets in Europe in negotiations with the German-Spanish wind energy company by the end of the month. The agreement on exclusive talks is consistent with insolvency plans adopted by the creditors’ assembly on Sept.

Thomas Cook is set to seek to push back a crucial meeting of bondholders as it races to secure support for a proposed £900m rescue deal that would leave its majority shareholder Fosun and lenders in control of the 178-year-old holiday business, the Financial Times reported. The company is locked in a series of last-minute negotiations as it looks to finalise the terms of the restructuring agreement with Fosun, its lenders and bondholders. Any deal would need support from three-quarters of its bondholders.

India on Saturday announced a series of measures to revive the housing sector and boost exports as the government tries to kick-start an economy hit by a lending crisis and a slowdown in demand, Reuters reported. A fund worth 100 billion rupees (£1.13 billion) will be available to complete unfinished affordable and middle income housing projects, India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said. An equal amount of funding will come from the private sector or from a government insurance company, she added.