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Insolvency isn’t always avoidable but the chances of doing so are always improved if action is taken early and rapidly to give the company the greatest opportunity of trading its way out of difficulty. The warning signs can be singular but usually accumulate in a financially poisonous cocktail and it is important that directors and company accountants are prepared to recognise them, Accountancy Age reported.

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Friday ordered liquidation of debt-ridden Amtek Auto as it declined lenders' request for extension of the insolvency resolution process deadline, Business Today reported. Amtek Auto was among the first list of the 12 companies that were referred by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 2017 to respective banks for the initiation of insolvency process for defaults. UK-based Liberty House was selected as the highest bidder by the committee of creditors (CoC) of Amtek Auto.

Essex and London Properties was wound up by the courts in September 2018 on public interest grounds. The Official Receiver was appointed liquidator of the company and has been made aware of several schemes targeting the company’s investors, GOV.UK reported. The ‘recovery schemes’ falsely claim they can retrieve invested capital from the liquidation process, pretend to be acting in co-operation with the Official Receiver and some even claim to be the Insolvency Service itself.

A senior market analyst is challenging Cell C’s largest shareholder, Blue Label Telecoms, to provide financial evidence that SA’s third largest mobile operator is solvent, ITWeb reported. David Shapiro, deputy chairman of Sasfin Securities, says it’s disturbing that shareholders in the mobile operator have chosen silence instead of explaining the future of the company to the markets. SA’s third-largest mobile operator was yesterday downgraded by ratings agency S&P Global Ratings to “default” status, after Cell C failed to make interest payments in July.

Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney said global growth prospects are flagging due to a trade war pursued by Washington, creating new challenges for economic policy makers, The Wall Street Journal reported. “The pickup that we’ve been expecting in global growth has not transpired,” Mr. Carney said in an interview Friday on the sidelines of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s annual symposium in the Grand Teton National Park. “When we trace it, it’s not because of Fed policy. It’s not because of global financial conditions.

Latvian banking regulator has filed an insolvency suit against the troubled local lender PNB Banka. The move comes just a week after the bank’s operations were suspended after the European Central bank (ECB) determined that PNB Banka is likely to fail, RBI reported. The Financial and Capital Market Commission (FCMC) of Latvia has submitted an application to the City of Riga Vidzeme District. It also requested the appointment of Vigo Krastiņš as the insolvency administrator.

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has initiated corporate insolvency resolution process against Umang Realtech under Section 7 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016, The Economic Times reported. The court has appointed Manish Kumar Gupta as the interim resolution professional (IRP) for the case. The IRP has been directed to make public announcement within three days of the order. The buyer, represented by advocate Aditya Parolia and Piyush Singh, partner, PSP Legal, had booked an apartment in Winter Hills 77 in March 2013 for Rs 1.01 crore.

In retrospect, it was probably not a fantastic idea to leave Iceland’s economic fortunes tethered to an airline called WOW. Before it collapsed in March, WOW Air delivered more than one-fourth of all international visitors to this ruggedly spectacular island nation. Its credulity-straining fares — $199 round trip from New York and San Francisco — were key elements of a tourism bonanza that lifted Iceland from its catastrophic 2008 financial crisis, the International New York Times reported.

Shares of DLF Ltd. plunged the most in almost three years after a newspaper reported that India’s top court is looking into whether the developer suppressed information about legal battles involving its biggest assets, Bloomberg News reported. The stock dropped 15.8% to 144.45 rupees in Mumbai on Thursday. Its fall dragged down the S&P BSE Realty Index to its worst performance among 19 sector sub-indexes compiled by the BSE Ltd.

A small uptick in private sector activity in the eurozone in August was not enough to dispel fears of lacklustre growth in the third quarter as Germany’s export-led factory sector continued to suffer from global trade tensions and weakening growth, the Financial Times reported. A closely watched survey of executives found that the small pick-up in eurozone activity was the result of the resilience of the services sector in both France and Germany, which helped offset the woes of the German manufacturing sector. The IHS Markit purchasing managers’ composite index for the eur