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Ecuador basks in glow of debt-restructuring success- Financial Times

When the IMF announced last month that it would lend Ecuador $6.5bn to get its battered economy back on track, the largest piece of a complex debt-restructuring jigsaw fell into place. The loan also capped six month-long negotiations with international creditors on several fronts — which all yielded successful outcomes.

Just as the government was dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and a sharp drop in oil prices, it talked to bondholders about restructuring $17.4bn of debt; asked the China Development Bank for a year-long amnesty on capital repayments while seeking fresh loans from Chinese banks; and renegotiated the terms of bonds issued by state-owned oil company Petroamazonas.

“Ecuador did it,” said Siobhan Morden, head of Latin America fixed income strategy at Amherst Pierpont Securities. She hailed the IMF agreement as “potentially a game-changer” for a country that was facing a funding shortfall of $4bn this year and has historically been a serial defaulter.

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