Ep 60 ft. Steven Bodzin & Carla Dager
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What's going on with Venezuela? And can we use it to talk about Blue Bonds? Venezuela has been in a...
Ep 59 ft. Jill Dauchy
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Environmental Benefits of the Belize Restructuring There has been a lot of hype about the Beliz...
Ep 58 ft. Elya Zhang
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The History Behind Lawsuits Over Old Chinese and Russian Sovereign Debt Lawsuits to enforce long-de...
Ep 57 ft. Paul Stephan
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From Russia With ... Well, Frankly, A Bit of Concern Getting paid on an expropriation claim is diff...
Ep 56 ft. Antonia Stolper
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From Commercial Bank Loans to Blue Bonds Sovereign debt markets have evolved significantly over the...
Ep 55 ft. Gunther Handl
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Does Haiti Have a Legal Right to Compensation from France? Two earlier C&C episodes explored aspect...
Ep 54 ft. Stephen Nelson
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Domestic Costs of Imposing Capital Controls - a Constraint on Sovereign Debtors? Stephen Nelson...
Ep 53 ft. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan and David Hoffman
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What Exactly is the Duty of Good Faith? Are the parties to sovereign debt contracts subject to a du...
Ep 52 ft. Scott Squires
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Province of Buenos Aires' Restructuring The recent restructuring of the Province of Buenos Aire...
Ep 51 ft. Thomas Laryea
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Restricting Trading in Venezuela’s Sovereign Bonds: Has it Worked? The Biden administration has c...
Ep 50 ft. Rachel Wellhausen
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What Do We Know About International Investment? What allows countries to borrow and to attract inve...
Ep 49 ft. Lachlan Burn & Jeffrey Golden
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Financial Contract Design Lachlan Burn and Jeff Golden, formerly of Linklaters and Allen & Overy, ...
Ep 48 ft. Layna Mosley
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Local v. Foreign Bonds? One of the classic questions in sovereign debt is why and when do sovereign...
Ep 47 ft. Andrew Shutter
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Greek Restructuring of 2012 – Filling in the Gaps Greece’s restructuring of March 2012 was ...
Ep 46 ft. Mitu & Mark
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(Why) Are ESG Sovereign Bonds (Such) Scams? Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing i...
Ep 45 ft. Lupin Rahman
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Does a Good ESG Score Lower Sovereign Borrowing Costs, or Does Cheaper Credit Leave More Room to Do ...
Ep 44 ft. Yesha Yadav
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What Does it Mean to Say the Treasury Market is Risk Free? The U.S. Treasury market is supposed to ...
Ep 43 ft. Aitor Erce
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Sovereign Debt Acronym Show DSA, SDR, DSSI. Sovereign debt insiders love to throw acronyms arou...
Ep 42 ft. Didac Queralt
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Did External Finance Produce Weaker States? In the first era of bond finance (roughly 1820-1920), c...
Ep 41 ft. Josefin Meyer
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do Investors in Sovereign Bonds Fare? Josefin Meyer (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) is o...
Ep 40 ft. Anna Gelpern
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Veil Piercing and State-Owned Entities Disappointed creditors can attach a sovereign's assets when ...
Ep 39 ft. Juan Flores Zendejas
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Covid is Just Like the _______ Crisis In the current economic context, with many worried about the ...
Ep 38 ft. Matthias Goldmann
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can Courts Help Right Historical Wrongs? In the early 1900s, the first genocide of the 20th centur...
Ep 37 ft. Anna Gelpern & Christoph Trebesch
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How China Lends Anna Gelpern and Christoph Trebesch--along with co-authors Sebastian Horn, Scott Mo...
Ep 36 ft. Anne-Laure Delatte
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why Is No One Worried About the Gargantuan Euro Area Sovereign Debt? Our guest is the brilliant Fre...
Ep 35 ft. Ben Heller
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bendy Bonds Are Better (Say it Five Times Fast) Our guest this week is Ben Heller, one of the most...
Ep 34 Ft. Lee Buchheit
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Recent Sovereign Debt Drama. Plus: Zambia’s Weird Bond Contracts Are EU member states jointly an...
Ep 33 ft. Matt Wirz
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Green Bonds for Everyone! Matt Wirz (Wall Street Journal) helped uncover the Hunger Bond scandal in...
Ep 32 ft. Ingrid Wuerth
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Central Banks, Executive Power, and Protecting Sovereign Assets Central banks are a bit of a proble...
Ep 31 ft. Mark Stumpf
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Value Recovery Instruments: A Contrarian View We often turn to veteran sovereign debt lawyer Mark ...
Ep 30 ft. Gregoire Mallard
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Post-Colonial Odious Debt Talk of odious debt generally asks whether the populace must repay money...
Ep 29 ft. Simon Hinrichsen
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Back Story of Iraq’s Debt Restructuring Iraq after Saddam Hussein had massive, patently unpay...
Ep 28 ft. Jacqueline Charles & Guy-Uriel Charles
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What Does the U.S. Owe Haiti for La Navasse? Sovereign debt and guano go together like ... they go ...
Ep 27 ft. Tommy Stubbington
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Zambia's Default and Restructuring Prospects Zambia was the first African country to default on its...
Ep 26 ft. Pippa Morgan
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What Motivates China's Overseas Lending? Including lending by state owned enterprises, China appear...
Ep 25 ft. Kim Oosterlinck
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do Investors Care About Odious Debts? The Tsarist Russian government used borrowed funds to repres...
Ep 24 ft. Julia Rudolph
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Haiti’s Odious "Independence Debt" In 1825, France imposed on Haiti an indemnity obligation of 15...
Ep 23 ft. Lee Buchheit, Joyce Chang, and Jeromin Zettelmeyer
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Covid (and Other) Contingencies We close out 2020 with all-star guests Lee Buchheit, Joyce Chang, a...
Ep 22 ft. Julia Mahoney & Ed Kitch
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Restructuring Uncle Sam's Debt All together now (in a smarmy drawl): "Families must balance their b...
Ep 21 ft. Felix Salmon
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Best Crisis Management in HISTORY! Felix Salmon (Axios; Slate Money) knows more about financial mar...
Ep 20 ft. Jeromin Zettelmeyer
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Trees. Wrong. Barking Up. Jeromin Zettelmeyer has done foundational research on the economics and ...
Ep 19 ft. Siobhan Morden
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A View From the Sell Side Our guest Siobhan Morden is one of the most respected and widely-read sel...
Ep 18 Ft. Yannis Manuelides
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why Not Use GDP-Linked Bonds? Yannis Manuelides heads Allen & Overy’s Sovereigns and Internationa...
Ep 17 Ft. Andy Hessick
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Judgments 1, CACs 0 If a bondholder sues and gets a judgment before a sovereign can restructure its...
Ep 16 ft. Elena Duggar
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Will Asking For Covid Assistance Cause a Ratings Downgrade? Earlier this year, the Official Sector ...
Ep 15 ft. Elena Carletti, Paolo Colla & Steven Ongena
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pricing Those Pesky CACs Do the legal provisions in a bond affect its price? If law matters then, a...
Ep 14 ft. Robin Wigglesworth
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What Lies Ahead? Italy can borrow for free in the middle of a pandemic and one of the worst econom...
Ep 13 ft. Mark and Mitu
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What's Your Damage? When a sovereign defaults on its debt, what should investors recover in damages...
Ep 12 ft. Patrick Bolton and Ugo Panizza
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What if we hit Another Sudden Stop? The sovereign debt markets hit a sudden stop in March 2020, wh...
Ep 11 ft. Mark and Mitu
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This Episode Will Become Void in 3...2...1 Prescription clauses say bondholder claims are "void" or...
Ep 10 ft. Joseph Cotterill
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
State Guarantees That Bite One in the Backside Our guest is legendary financial reporter, Joseph Co...
Ep 9 Ft. Jim Ho
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Contracting for Disaster(s) Borrowers must pay. Period. Even a natural disaster probably won't excu...
Ep 8 ft. Anna Szymanski
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Sovereign Debt Seating Chart Needs Bigger Chairs Big investors have been the dominant force on ...
Ep 7 ft. Colby Smith
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Would you rather date Ecuador or Argentina? Neither can pay their debts. But one brings your parent...
Ep 6 ft. Anna Gelpern
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How Did We Get the Crappy CAC? Argentina made a lot of investors mad by proposing (threatening?) to...
Ep 5 ft. Eric Posner
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why all the Sturm and Drang Over Force Majuere? Recently, thanks to COVID-19, there has been much t...
Ep 4 ft. Noel Maurer
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Where Did All the Secured Loans Go? Once upon a time, many governments could borrow in foreign mar...
Ep 3 ft. Gerard Magliocca
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gold Clause Mumbo Jumbo We love to talk about the Gold Clause Cases from the 1930s and wonder why o...
Ep 2 ft. Tracy Alloway, Lee Buchheit, Alex Xiao
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Imperial Chinese Bonds: Are They Coming Back to Life in 2020? Bloomberg’s Tracy Alloway, financi...
Ep 1 ft. Mark Weidemaier
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Venezuela’s Oil Company is Up For Grabs – and the Absence of Ten Words in its Governing Law Clau...