Greece

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and his deputy, George Chouliarakis, will meet with the head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde on Saturday. The meeting will be held in Washington on the sidelines of the IMF’s annual meeting. The meeting...

Christine Lagarde may soon be visiting Athens in order to discuss the future position of the IMF in Greece’s bailout program, with the Greek government. According to John Koudounis, CEO of Calamos Investments, who spoke to Lagarde on the sidelines...

Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement on Greece in Luxembourg today: “I would like to announce my intention to propose to the IMF’s Executive Board the approval in principle (AIP) of...

The agreement for Greece's debt sustainability must be in compliance with International Monetary Fund (IMF) rules, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said at an event held by Bruegel Institute in Brussels on Wednesday, discussing the course of the global...

Christine Lagarde noted that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would continue to support its positions, while she admitted that Greece’s bailout was not successful, especially for the Greeks. “We still need to be rigorous and disciplined. On occasion we will...

Greece has made progress in the reforms, but lots of work remains to be done, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said on Friday on the sidelines of the G7 summit held in Japan. She said that the IMF will draft its...

IMF managing director Christine Lagarde sent a letter to Greek PM Alexis Tsipras regarding an IMF staff conversation that was leaked and described that IMF is will not participate in the Greek programme because it has fears for bankruptcy...

International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde reiterated that the Greek debt is not sustainable at the moment. Lagarde made her remarks during the IMF's annual meeting in Lima, Peru, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency reports. The IMF has not made it known...

The IMF is willing to participate in the next Greek bailout program, provided that the Eurozone allows a debt haircut or restructuring, so that the debt becomes sustainable and the country can receive market financing, said the fund’s Managing...

International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde has a Greek "guardian angel" to look after her. It was during the meeting with Greece's Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, that we learnt the man who is responsible for her security is a former...

Greece's debt will "have to be addressed" as part of the solution to fix the country's near-default economy, and the International Monetary Fund is still targeting a debt ratio of 120% of gross domestic product, the head of the...

In high-stakes deals on the Street, the side with the leverage usually demands "show me the money first, then we'll talk." But in the rarefied and much higher-stakes world of desperate sovereign borrowers and multilateral lenders of last resort...

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said she is not in the mood to renegotiate the terms of Greece’s bailout agreement. “I am not in a negotiation or renegotiation mood at all,” Lagarde said in an interview on CBNC...

The International Monetary Fund expects Greece΄s next government to implement its agreed bailout program, IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said Tuesday, according to Dow Jones. "The clear preference of the IMF in the interests of stability is that appropriate implementation...

The head of the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday raised the possibility that Greece could leave the eurozone in an orderly fashion. "If the country's budgetary commitments are not honored, there are appropriate revisions to do, which means either supplementary...