The Argentine government has awarded Barclays Capital the mandate to reach an agreement with the hold-outs on about $20 billion of defaulted sovereign debt.
The government had received separate proposals from Deutsche Bank, Citi and Barclays Capital about restructuring the debt but on 25 September appointed the UK bank to move forward with its plan for the bondholders that rejected the 76% haircut on the country’s $88 billion of defaulted sovereign debt. The last restructuring of this debt was in 2005.
On 2 September, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the Argentine president, also announced that the government would use central bank reserves to repay the $6.7 billion of debt in full.
The terms of the deal with the hold-outs is not yet clear but the bondholders are making it clear that the offer must be...
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