The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico announced Friday that it filed in court a debt-adjustment plan for the Sales Tax Financing Corp. (Cofina), Caribbean Business reported.
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In hearing held on Tuesday by the Puerto Rico House Committee on Economic Development, Planning, Telecommunications, Public-Private Partnerships and Energy, Christian Sobrino Vega, the executive director of the Fiscal Agency & Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF by its Spanish acronym) said that the proposals for the transmission and distribution of the Electric Power Authority (PREPA) will
While history is littered with examples of ill-designed debt restructuring exercises that soon unraveled at great economic and human cost, the recently announced debt restructuring arrangement for Puerto Rico's sales tax-backed bonds (COFINA), the island's economy risks joining those ranks, according to a Bloomberg commentary.
Puerto Rico’s unsecured creditors will drop their opposition to a deal to restructure roughly $4 billion of debt issued by the U.S. commonwealth’s defunct Government Development Bank (GDB), under an agreement revealed on Friday, Reuters reported. During a U.S.
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