The IMF on Tuesday approved a $2.5 billion loan for Sudan, and with the World Bank sealed a landmark deal that unlocks nearly $50 billion in debt relief for the impoverished African nation. The announcement came after the International Monetary Fund finalized an agreement with 101 donor countries allowing Sudan to clear roughly $1.4 billion…
Cabinet backs debt relief extension State-owned firms to help until year-end People follow social distancing while queuing at a Government Savings Bank branch in a shopping mall.(Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb) The cabinet on Tuesday approved seven state-owned financial institutions extending debt relief measures for their customers for another six months to help ease the impact of…
29/06/2021 Thousands more people will be able to get out of problem debt as a result of changes coming into force today. Debt Relief Orders (DROs) can now be used if you owe a maximum of 30,000, up from the previous limit of 20,000. DROs are aimed at people with relatively low levels of unmanageable…
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Power-generating windmill turbines are pictured in Suzlon wind farm at Sanodar village, west of the Indian city of Ahmedabad, September 8, 2009. REUTERS/Amit Dave KARACHI/LONDON, June 28 (Reuters) – The soothing calm and palpable enthusiasm in debt markets is deceiving. Developing and emerging economies, which suffered a large-scale withdrawal of international capital at the outbreak…
Smoke comes out of an electric plant on the shore of the polluted River Plate in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 5, 2017. Picture taken on June 5, 2017. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci/File Photo So far debt relief focused on poorest of 72 nations at risk G20 urged to include middle-income countries in debt relief New bonds would…
Six months after its chair Lai Xiaomin was found guilty of corruption and executed, the fate of Huarong Asset Management, Chinas biggest bad debt manager, is no clearer and the stakes for Beijing are rising. One of four state-owned asset management companies established in 1999 to clean up the banking sectors debts following the Asian…
Under HELP, repayments begin to be deducted from your salary at just 1 per cent this financial year once you earn $46,620. This ratchets up 10 per cent if your income hits $136,740. While you used to be able to escape repayments in periods where you were living overseas, worldwide income now counts, and the…
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Earlier this year, Black farmers were slated to receive billions of dollars in federal aid to wipe away their U.S. Department of Agriculture loans. The chance of actually getting that money however is starting to wither. That’s because two federal judges have blocked Black, Brown and other farmers of color from getting the debt-relief payments.…