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Montevideo, November 21st 2024 - 17:37 UTC

Tag: swap

  • Thursday, June 13th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

    Milei leaves for G7 Summit with a plethora of good news

    Se espera que Milei exponga ante el G7 sobre el posible rol de Argentina como polo de desarrollo líder en inteligencia artificial

    After a day of good news following the Senate's broad approval of the Bases Law bill in addition to an arrangement with China to extend the currency swap in force, Argentine President Javier Milei and his entourage left for Borgo Egnazia, Italy, to attend the G7 Summit, during which he plans to hold talks with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, among other world leaders.

  • Monday, December 3rd 2018 - 06:42 UTC

    China boosts Argentina's foreign reserves with a US$ 9 billion currency swap

    The Argentine central bank said the swap deal will “contribute to greater financial stability and also facilitate trade” between China and Argentina

    China and Argentina signed a US$ 9 billion currency swap agreement to boost the South American country’s foreign currency reserves, its central bank announced on Sunday.

  • Monday, November 2nd 2015 - 09:18 UTC

    China's Renmimbi has become world's second most used currency in trade finance

    Markets expect RMB’s market share in trade settlement and payments to continue to grow anticipating China will further open up its financial markets.

    As China establishes itself as the world’s second largest economy and top trading nation, its currency, the renminbi (RMB), is also gaining popularity around the world. According to the People’s Bank of China’s 2015 Renminbi Internationalization Report, the RMB was the world’s 5th most used payment currency, the 2nd most used trade finance currency, and the 6th most traded currency in 2014.

  • Friday, November 29th 2013 - 07:23 UTC

    Desperately dollar-short Venezuela planning gold reserves swap operation

    Opposition leader Capriles who released the news said it was supplied “by friends inside government”

    Venezuela is evaluating a swap agreement involving gold reserves as a way to fortify dollar supplies in a country which suffers chronic product shortages and inflation close to 55%. Opposition leader Henrique Capriles said last week that the government was negotiating a swap operation with Goldman Sachs involving 1.45 million ounces of gold worth around 1.86 billion dollars.

  • Monday, May 13th 2013 - 22:34 UTC

    China to the rescue of Argentina with a 10 billion dollars equivalent swap

    Cristina Fernandez trying to convince Vice-president Li to accept Argentine Pesos

    Argentina is negotiating with China a new 10 billon dollars equivalent swap of international reserves support based on the experience of 2009 when the global financial crisis. The new accord should theoretically help Argentina strengthen its international position vis-à-vis the run on the dollar (or the flight from the Peso) and which has cost the Central bank 4 billion dollars so far this year.

  • Friday, February 4th 2011 - 21:53 UTC

    Argentina still haunted by the holdouts from the 2001 default

    New York Federal Judge Thomas Griesa

    Argentina’s attempts to return to global credit markets nine years after its 2001/02 default received this week mixed results. New York Federal Judge Thomas Griesa has issued a ruling urging Argentina to pay 54.33 million Euros (US$75.1 million) to the Capital Ventures International Fund.

  • Friday, May 14th 2010 - 04:20 UTC

    Italian Defaulted Bond Holders Seem Prepared to Accept Argentine Debt-Swap Plan

    TFA head Nicola Stock in 2005 called the swap “unacceptable and unilateral”

    In an extensive report, the Task Force Argentina (TFA)—which represents Italians holding some 4.5 billion US dollars in defaulted Argentine sovereign bonds—gave an ambiguous declaration over Argentina's debt-swap plan.

  • Wednesday, May 12th 2010 - 07:01 UTC

    Argentina Confident Bondholders Will Join Debt-Swap: Wednesday D Day

    Economy minister Amado Boudou

    Argentine Economy Minister Amado Boudou held a meeting Tuesday with 40 international investors at the New York Palace Hotel, within the framework of his United States road show to encourage bondholders to join the Government's debt-swap.

  • Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 08:36 UTC

    Argentina Publishes Terms of the Defaulted 20 Billion Bonds Swap

    President Cristina Kirchner

    The Argentine government has published the offer to swap 20 billion US dollars in defaulted bonds on specialized media around the globe and on www.argentina2010offer.com website.