Category: Argentina

As Argentina gears up for negotiations with the bondholders it stiffed 18 months ago, other sovereign issuers and banks are experimenting with a new generation of bonds that could profoundly reshape the debt market for years to come.

One of the most remarkable features of Argentina’s debt debacle is the government’s attempt to shift the burden of adjustment away from the domestic economy, transferring wealth from creditors to debtors, and from future generations to current ones. Guillermo Mondino says the long-term consequences of such a strategy are serious and warns other countries to take heed.

Argentina’s financial crisis has affected the region’s
markets far more deeply than many expected. It has changed the way investors and banks approach risk in Latin America.