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Private sector creditors raise concerns over debt relief plan | Malay Mail

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LONDON, May 5 — The Institute of International Finance (IIF), a trade association comprising the world's largest financial institutions, has outlined obstacles to the private sector joining a plan to ease the debt of the world's poorest nations. The Group of 20 major economies announced on April...

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But the IIF, which last month issued a rallying call to the private sector to join the initiative, has written to the heads of the International Monetary Fund , World Bank and Paris Club to raise the concerns of creditors about their involvement in such a move. The creditors pointed to concerns over finding agreement on the value of assets such as bonds, terms for private sector participation and whether the initiative will trigger a wave of sovereign debt downgrades and defaults, which could pose implications for benchmark indexes and capital flows.“Creditors have highlighted significant concerns that the DSSI could curtail international market access for countries that currently have it," Adams wrote in the letter seen by Reuters.

Another question surrounded the rules controlling new external financing sought by countries while using the initiative.

 

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