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ARGENTINA: IMF-ARGENTINA DEAL UPSETS FOREIGN BANKS.(Brief Article)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, August, 2002

Foreign banks operating in Argentina are demanding that the country's crucial agreement with the International Monetary Fund be delayed. The banks are upset about a batch of new government proposals that could stack hundreds of millions of dollars in fresh losses onto their already-battered balance sheets, reported the Financial Times.

The Association of Argentine Banks - which represents the local subsidiaries of such major international banking groups as Citibank, HSBC, BSCH and BBVA - has met ambassadors from the Group of Seven industrialized nations to press them to delay the IMF deal until the government backs down on the controversial proposals. The banks are also seeking an urgent meeting with the president of Argentina, Eduardo Duhalde, to relay their...

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