Investors With 58% of Greek Bonds Agree to Swap
By Maria Petrakis and Fabio Benedetti-Valentini - Mar 7, 2012 4:55 PM GMT+0100
Investors with 58 percent of the Greek bonds eligible for the nation’s debt swap have so far indicated they’ll participate, putting the country on the verge of the biggest sovereign restructuring in history.
Greece’s largest banks, most of the country’s pension funds, and more than 30 European banks and insurers including BNP Paribas SA,
Commerzbank AG (CBK) and
Assicurazioni Generali SpA (G) have pledged to accept the offer. That brings the total so far to at least 120 billion euros ($157 billion), based on data compiled by Bloomberg from company reports and government statements.