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Treasury abandons plan to restructure Eurobond loans
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National Treasury CS Ukur Yatani.
The National Treasury has dropped plans to reschedule payment of Eurobond loans, with the last week’s announcement spooking investors.
Yesterday, Treasury cancelled an earlier advertisement seeking the services of a “sovereign debt advisory firm,” - which gave an impression that all types of commercial loans including Eurobond loans would be restructured.
This roiled the market with investors fearing there would be a delay in the payment of their loans as it happened with Zambia. Treasury was forced to clarify that only syndicated loans given by commercial banks would be restructured. In the new international expression of interest, the Treasury instead talked of appointing a “Liability Management Operations Advisory Firm.”