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Bed Bath & Beyond plans to liquidate all inventory and go out of business

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New YorkCNN — Bed Bath & Beyond, the store for seemingly everything in your home during the 1990s and 2000s, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday. The company secured a $240 million loan to help fund its operations during bankruptcy. A bankruptcy filing does not necessarily mean that a company is going out of business.

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Americans Are Carrying Record Household Debt into 2024

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Our experts used debt statistics from the NYFRB broken down by debt category and down to the state level to get a detailed picture of what kinds of debt Americans are holding and where they are holding it. The largest increase in any category was credit card debt, which swelled by 16.6% Consider bankruptcy: Don’t be scared.

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

On January 19, the Federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ordered the bankruptcy court adjudicating the bankruptcy of FTX to appoint an examiner to investigate the collapse of the digital asset exchange. billion in additional student loan debt relief for 73,600 borrowers. For more information, click here.

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Debt Collection Now and Post-Covid

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For example, consider leisure and hospitality workers, whose employment fell by over 20% compared to 2019, or book retailers and news dealers, who recorded a 48.9% Breaking down your portfolio of delinquent debts into categories based on the information here may help optimize your collection efforts and accelerate cash inflow.

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

On November 16, the Justice Department, in close coordination with the Department of Education, announced a successful first year of the new process for handling cases in which individuals seek to discharge their federal student loans in bankruptcy. For more information, click here. For more information, click here.

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

On September 29, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a special edition of Supervisory Highlights on recent examination findings, covering the practices of student loan servicers and schools that lend to students directly. On September 29, an independent examiner was appointed in the Celsius bankruptcy case.