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Moreover, not forbidding indirect purchases should be seen primarily as a means of permitting banks that buy government bonds to pledge them as collateral for refinancing operations, while bearing the full investment risk. The distinction between bond purchases from the government and from the banks that bought them from the government is a phony one that gives rise to myriad possibilities for circumvention.

Meanwhile, the current French proposal of a voluntary rollover by banks is flopping, as it would impose prohibitively high interest rates on the Greeks. Likewise, debt buybacks would be a massive waste of official resources, as the residual value of the debt increases as it is bought, benefiting creditors far more than the sovereign debtor.

Investors tendered 91.2 per cent of the 500 million in bonds due in 2006 and 95.7 per cent of the 600 million in bonds due in 2013.

Article 29Where an enterprise buys back part of its financial liabilities, it shall distribute, on the repo day, the carrying amount of the whole financial liabilities in light of the comparatively fair value of the part that continues to be recognized and the part whose recognition has already been terminated.

21 Debt buy backs involve buying back the claims at the net present value of the remaining cash flows the net present value is calculated by discounting cash flows at risk free rate plus a market referenced common country risk spread.

As of the end of 1997, 11 African countries had completed operations that involved buy backs at large discounts. The total principal debt extinguished as a result amounted to 1.9 billion, at a total cost of 345 million (implied discount of over 80 per cent for these countries).

Before January, this sequence of events was quite likely, but the ECB s bond buying program put a firebreak at each point of the contagion process. If holders of Portuguese bonds are alarmed by a future Greek default, the ECB will simply increase its bond buying with no limit to its buying power, it will easily overwhelm any selling pressure.

In addition, the ECB could purchase EIB bonds on secondary markets, which would help to keep funding costs low or even reduce them. More important, purchases of EIB bonds would enable the ECB to undertake quantitative easing without triggering the degree of controversy implied by intervening in 18 separate sovereign bond markets, where concerns that ECB purchases would affect the relative pricing of sovereigns are very real.

They have had to go further and further into debt to purchase the technology that they cannot produce on their own, to the extent that they can no longer honour their debts.

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Most least developed countries have benefited from these plans, whether in the form of ODA debt cancellation, rescheduling of official debts in the Paris Club, commercial debt buy backs or multilateral debt arrangement.

In 2008, on the eve of the crisis, three quarters of Portuguese debt, one half of Spanish and Greek debt, and more than two fifths of Italian debt was held by foreigners, with foreign banks holding a significant proportion, especially in the case of Greece, Portugal, and Italy. One consequence of the ECB s large scale long term refinancing operation (LTRO) has been that Italian banks are once again buying Italian government bonds, and Spanish banks are buying Spanish bonds.

The ECB has already attempted to ease credit conditions by purchasing high quality asset backed securities. It has bought securities backed by cash flows from private sector mortgages, so called covered bonds, and it has floated the idea of buying corporate bonds and multilateral securities issued by the European Investment Bank.

For both borrowers and creditors, the risks and costs are enormous. The borrower is cut off from international markets, and essential imports can no longer be purchased, while large scale defaults threaten to plunge creditors into insolvency.

So far, policymakers are talking only about exchanging old Greek bonds for cash (in buybacks) or new Greek bonds. It would be far preferable to exchange them for Eurobonds, backed by the full faith and credit of all eurozone countries.

The ECB directed the central banks of all Eurozone members to buy huge quantities of Italian government bonds during the crisis. While the national central banks have not revealed how much they bought, the aggregate stock of all government bonds purchased rose from 74 billion ( 102 billion) on August 4, to 165 billion this month.

(a) The title of a creditor who retains title to goods to secure payment of the purchase price of the goods or its economic equivalent under a financial lease or hire purchase agreement and

BRUSSELS It has now been nearly half a year since the European Central Bank declared its intention to buy some 1.1 trillion ( 1.3 trillion) worth of eurozone bonds. When it first announced the so called extended asset purchase program in January, the ECB emphasized that it was only expanding an existing program, under which it had been buying modest quantities of private sector bonds, to cover government paper.

Still, in one area, a Tobin tax could provide an unmitigated benefit. Many of the largest, most precarious financial institutions now finance themselves via repo they buy a long term security (often government debt) and sell it, promising to buy it back the next day for a slightly higher price.

Indeed, the Fed, unlike the ECB, does not buy any bonds from individual states investors must bear the costs of any state insolvency. In 1975, New York had to pledge its future tax revenues to its creditors in order to remain solvent.

The EU is pinning its hopes on one mechanism to reduce Greek debt loans from the European Financial Stability Facility that would allow Greece to buy its own debt at a discount in the secondary market. But, while allowing the EFSF to finance buybacks is a step forward, a slew of theoretical and empirical research, generated by developing countries efforts to buy back their debt in the 1980 s and 1990 s, has shown that it is far from a cure all.

(1)The purpose to acquire the said financial assets or undertake the financial liabilities is mainly for selling or repurchase of them in the near future

Proponents of OMT counter that the Treaty forbids only direct government bond purchases indirect purchases in secondary markets are allowed. But the decision not to prohibit indirect purchases, opponents argue, may have been intended to allow the ECB to carry out weekly repo operations, following a practice used by the Banque de France to reduce fluctuations in short term interest rates.

But QE would present a problem for the ECB that the Fed and other central banks do not face. The eurozone has no centrally issued and traded Eurobond that the central bank could buy.

Sierra Leone would issue iron ore bonds and Mongolia would issue copper bonds. Investors would be able to buy Guatemala s coffee bonds, Côte d Ivoire s cocoa bonds, Liberia s rubber bonds, Mali s cotton bonds, and Ghana s gold bonds.

Jamaica, for example, would issue aluminum bonds Nigeria would issue oil bonds Sierra Leone would issue iron ore bonds and Mongolia would issue copper bonds. Investors would be able to buy Guatemala s coffee bonds, Côte d Ivoire s cocoa bonds, Liberia s rubber bonds, Mali s cotton bonds, and Ghana s gold bonds.

The Bank of Japan already holds government securities worth 40 of GDP, and it is committed to annual purchases worth 16 of GDP within the framework of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe s economic revitalization agenda. The mammoth size of the BOJ program implies that it has taken full control of the market for government paper.

On 29 June 2005, the Paris Club creditors announced their agreement to enter into negotiations with Nigeria on a comprehensive exit debt treatment, which would include debt reduction up to Naples terms on eligible debts and a buy back at a market related discount on the remaining eligible debts.

The first phases of that treatment, from 1982 to 1988, relied on debt reschedulings and new liquidity support, together with a market menu of options, which allowed limited amounts of voluntary debt reductions through debt securitization at a discount, debt equity swaps and debt buy backs.

In accordance with United Nations system accounting standards, non expendable property purchased with UNHCR voluntary funds is not recorded on the balance sheet, but is charged as expenditure to the appropriate project in the year of acquisition.

(b) Acquisition security right means a security right in an asset that secures the obligation to pay any unpaid portion of the purchase price of the asset or other obligation incurred to enable the grantor to acquire the asset.

Still, the terms were acceptable to the vast majority of the country s creditors, who exchanged their old claims for new ones worth 30 cents on the dollar. All, that is, except for a few holdouts who bought up the remaining bonds on the cheap and went to court, specifically to the US District Court of the Southern District of New York, asking to be paid in full.

Because secured transactions affect the interests of various persons, including the debtor, other grantors, competing creditors, such as secured, privileged and unsecured creditors, purchasers and other transferees, and the State, the Guide proposes rules that take into account their legitimate interests and seek to achieve, in a balanced way, all the objectives mentioned above.

CDOs are a form of financial alchemy special purpose vehicles that buy the financial equivalent of lead (low rated mortgaged backed securities) and finance themselves mostly with the financial equivalent of gold (highly sought after AAA bonds). This transformation is based on one sound principle and two shaky ones.

Moreover, because financial institutions assets were bought mainly with borrowed money, the shortage of credit is exacerbated by their need to deleverage. Since raising capital is difficult and costly, they deleverage by lending less.

Throughout, the Guide seeks to establish a balance among the interests of debtors, creditors (whether secured, privileged or unsecured), affected third persons, buyers and other transferees, and the State.

The similarity between the SMSF and OMTs also implies that at least one of the two institutions is exceeding its mandate. If government bond purchases are monetary operations, as the ECB claims, the ESM is overreaching if they are fiscal operations, it is the ECB that has crossed the line.

Pushing up asset prices and pushing down the euro s exchange rate will require the ECB to buy bonds on the secondary market not the crisis countries bonds per se, but those of all eurozone members. In other words, it will require quantitative easing.

The bonds can be sold to a worldwide market by insurance companies that incur major risks by writing policies. If the insurance companies can get a good enough price for such bonds, they can eliminate their exposure to the risk of a major disaster, thereby allowing them to issue policies to homeowners at a lower cost.

Adding 400 billion would increase the pool substantially. Together with asset backed securities, covered bonds, and corporate bonds, 1 trillion of assets the threshold widely thought to make quantitative easing by the ECB credible would be available for purchase.

On this topic, there is no shortage of expert plans among them bond buy backs, bond swaps, and the creation of Eurobonds, a European version of the Brady bonds issued by Latin American countries that defaulted in the 1980 s. What all such schemes amount to is piling one lot of bonds on top of another in an attempt to square the circle of Greece s inability to pay, and to minimize the losses faced by its creditors mostly European banks.

Assuming a limit to foreign investors willingness to buy these bonds, Greeks would have to buy them. In an economy unequipped for growth, household wealth relative to wages would soar, and the labor supply would shrink, causing employment to contract.

(i) Audit of the system of internal controls, payroll and personnel management, staff costs and allowances, procurement and inventory controls, liabilities, income and expenditure

The law should provide that an acquisition security right is subject to the recommendations in this Chapter regarding effectiveness against third parties and priority even if the acquisition financier (i) also has a security right in the goods securing non acquisition obligations of the grantor or (ii) has a security right in other assets of the grantor securing the payment obligation relating to the acquisition security right.