The Institute of International Finance, a financial sector lobbying group that has been leading the discussions on private sector involvement with the Greek government, has said that the estimates are based on a participation of 90 percent of Greek bondholders.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January, the Confederation of Indian Industry, a private-sector lobby group, led a highly successful national branding campaign.
For their part, private-sector lobby groups saw easy money up for grabs.
With the addition of a 50% top income-tax rate from April for high earners, tax lawyers fear that more of the highly paid will choose to leave Britain.Financial-sector lobby groups have been quick to criticise the payroll tax as damaging to Britain's attractiveness as a financial centre.
In a similar vein, let me ask why we should take seriously economic analysis offered up by a financial-sector lobbying group on behalf of its members — if, for example, it says that regulation of its members will slow economic growth?
Amazon Web Services, on the other hand, is the "among the dirtiest and least transparent companies in the sector", environmental lobby group Greenpeace concludes in its April 2014 report, Clicking Clean.
The federal government's two-year freeze on commonwealth grants funding will mean the equivalent of almost 10,000 student places go unfunded in 2018, the university sector's chief lobby group has argued.
A lobby group for chemicals sector, Cefic, which includes powerhouses like BASF of Germany, led a particularly forceful campaign for the rules to be relaxed.
Angela Knight has admitted she will leave her job as boss of the power industry's lobby group next week with the sector's reputation still badly tarnished.
Urgent progress is needed on a Brexit transition period to prevent City firms implementing contingency plans that could put up to 75,000 UK financial services sector jobs at risk, a leading industry lobby group has warned.
