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Last week I did a post about how the FDIC as receiver for Silicon Valley Bank probably doesn't have a claim against SVB Financial Group, the holdco of the bank. I got some pushback on that (including from a former...
If you have outstanding debt, you may be receiving countless phone calls from unknown parties claiming that you owe them. They may even threaten to sue you or initiate some other type of action against you.
As I have previously blogged, SVB Financial Group seems to be trying to do venue by declaration. Consider the grounds for venue under 28 USC 1408 and how they apply to SVBFG: Location of principal place of business for majority...
On March 1, 2023, the U.S.
Last year, I savored a bit of schadenfreude watching my con law scholar colleagues despair about their field after cases like Dobbs v. Women's Health Organization or West Virginia v. EPA. Con law scholars see themselves as the royalty of...
I'm teaching cryptocurrency today in my Payment Systems class, and I'd been puzzling about why no one has applied the Electronic Fund Transfers Act and Reg E thereunder to crypto: after all, if you have a crypto account with an...
Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding that is initiated when a person or business is unable to pay their debts. After declaring bankruptcy, your debts will either be erased, or a repayment plan will be established.
TDPelmedia has an article about bailout packages for small business. The article can be found at
There's talk about removing the FDIC deposit insurance caps in response to the "Panic of 2023"®. There's a refreshing realism about such a move. But let's also be clear about the distributional impact of such a move: it's a huge...
Financial regulation has a credibility problem. Actually, it's got two credibility problems. It's not credible any more to think that financial regulators will shut down troubled institutions until they are forced to do so.
The money held in your 401(k) is yours to withdraw, provided you are fine with incurring a tax on withdrawn funds if you have not yet reached retirement age.