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Bankruptcy cases are taking longer to resolve and yielding lower values for lenders, a credit rating agency analysis said on Monday. The average number of days taken to close a case either through a resolution process or liquidation was at its highest at 588 days for financial creditors if one were to look at official data for the first nine months of the current fiscal, it said, adding that it was 531 days in FY22 and 463 days in FY21. The agency analysed official data released by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India to arrive at its findings. The stretched timelines have resulted in admissions outpacing case closures every year since FY18, India Ratings and Research said, adding that the only exception to this was FY21 where admission of cases got restricted on account of the pandemic. As against the 270 days stipulated in the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, the timeline for the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) overshoots the mandatory timeline in 63 per cen
Zee Enterprises' managing director and chief executive Puneet Goenka on Thursday moved appellate tribunal NCLAT challenging the order of the National Company Law Tribunal which admitted an IndusInd Bank plea for insolvency proceedings against the firm. The appeal seeking relief against the National Company Law Tribunal's Mumbai bench order was filed by Goenka in the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Thursday, as per an official statement from the company. "Goenka is taking all the necessary steps as per law to protect the interests of all stakeholders of Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEEL) and to achieve a timely completion of the proposed merger with Culver Max Entertainment," the statement said. A division bench of judicial member H V Subba Rao and technical member Madhu Sinha had on Wednesday admitted the plea by private sector lender IndusInd Bank and also appointed Sanjeev Kumar Jalan as the resolution professional in the matter. The matter pertains to a defa
The number of insolvency cases increased 25 per cent in the December 2022 quarter, while recovery of debt through the process remained the lowest at 23.45 per cent during the period, an analysis showed. While the number of insolvency petitions increased by a steep 25 per cent, the overall recovery rate till the third quarter of FY23 was just 30.4 per cent, implying a haircut of 69.6 per cent. The cumulative recovery rate has been on a downtrend, decreasing from 43 per cent in Q1FY20 and 32.9 per cent in Q4FY22, according to an analysis of the latest numbers of insolvency board IBBI carried out by Care Ratings. However, the Q3FY23 recovery was the lowest at 23.45 per cent, it said. Sanjay Agarwal, a senior director with the agency, said this steep fall has been due to the fact that most of the larger resolutions have already been executed and a significant number of liquidated cases are either BIFR (Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction) cases and/or defunct with high ...
Crypto lending company Genesis is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as faltering prices and the downfall of FTX continue to rattle the industry. Genesis Global Holdco LLC and two of its lending business subsidiaries, Genesis Global Capital LLC and Genesis Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., filed for bankruptcy protection in the Southern District of New York. Genesis said that its other subsidiaries involved in the derivatives and spot trading and custody businesses and Genesis Global Trading are not included in the filing and continue client trading operations. Genesis said that it has more than $150 million in cash on hand, providing ample liquidity to support its ongoing business operations and facilitate its restructuring. Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission went after Genesis Global Capital and the crypto exchange Gemini, alleging that they were selling unregistered securities through a popular program that was supposed to give high interest payments on crypto ...