The Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation (known as COFINA for its initials in Spanish) announced it has launched an investor relations website to increase transparency to investors regarding specific bonds. Information about COFINA’s restructured sales tax bonds Series 2019A and Series 2019B issued in connection with the Third Amended Title III Plan of Adjustment of Puerto Rico […]
Puerto Rico bond insurers this month filed suit against eight well-known investment banks (UBS, Citi, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Securities, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, RBC and Santander) for failing to perform proper diligence on Commonwealth bonds worth approximately $11 billion. The train of neglect ran from 2001 to 2015 and included revenue and expenditure falsification […]
The proposed Restructuring Support Agreement for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority is not a good transaction for Puerto Rico. Its terms and conditions are overly generous to creditors; it discourages the transition to distributed renewable generation; it is uncertain whether it provides the debt relief necessary to maintain PREPA as a going concern, while […]
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