Sentence examples for creditors from inspiring English sources

Officials from Greece have been locked in talks with creditors over the weekend in an attempt to agree a package of economic reforms.

The UN is not the obvious forum for discussing debt restructuring: unlike the International Monetary Fund, it is not a lender of last resort with emergency cash to disburse, and doesn't have a seat around the table when countries have to go to their creditors to ask for help.

Following three months of fruitless talks to reach a cash-for-reform deal with creditors, public finances have never been worse.

Greece's recently elected leftwing-led government has so far failed to present a package of reforms to the IMF and its eurozone partners that those creditors deem serious enough to unlock the remaining bailout funds.

At present, a company can secure protection from creditors through insolvency but a sovereign state cannot.

Greece's crisis talks with international creditors have made slow progress and fears remain high that it could default on its debts, precipitating Athens' departure from the eurozone.

Other creditors agreed to cut a deal with Argentina in 2005 and again in 2010 by swapping their bonds for new ones worth less.

There have been times when senior officials in Brussels and the IMF have shown their sympathy for a country that must spend the next 42 years paying back an average of €10bn (£7bn) a year to the IMF, the European Central Bank, the EU and each EU country that has made loans separately – not to mention the private sector creditors.

Greece has vowed to honour heavy debt repayments over the coming weeks but says it is counting on international creditors to release billions of euros in rescue funds before the end of the month as crisis talks between the two sides grind on.

International creditors at the EU, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund have pressed for a mass fire sale of Greek state properties, ranging from airports to ports, to help balance the books in Athens.

How Tsipras comports himself in Moscow – and what support, if any, he gives to Putin on sanctions – is likely to be critical to how creditors, and the US, deal with Greece in the days to come.