Officials from emerging markets and institutionally strong developing countries that have some degree of market development and sufficient capacity to meaningfully engage on the subject matter.
Invitation
Session No.: HQ 26.12
Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Date: July 13-17, 2026 (1 week)
Delivery Method: In-person Training
Primary Language: English
Mid- to senior-level government lawyers from invited countries-serving as legal counsel in the Ministry of Finance, Debt Management Office, central bank, and tax authority-with direct responsibility for the legal framework governing sovereign borrowing, government securities markets, related financial transactions, or their taxation, and sufficient institutional experience to engage in peer-level, technical legal discussions.
As part of the broader Fund endeavor to build capacity regarding Local Currency Bond Markets, the course seeks to provide focused "counsel-to-counsel" legal training on the core legal fields. Specifically, the course will address the legal foundations of (i) the modalities of sovereign borrowing within the framework of public financial management, (ii) the primary and secondary markets of sovereign bonds and bills, including the interinstitutional allocation of responsibilities and key transactions (repo, collateral, securities lending), (iii) the post-trading infrastructure supporting those markets, and (iv) taxation of sovereign debt instruments and related transactions (e.g., repurchase agreements). The course will follow a modular design: while some sessions will be addressed to the entire group of participants, other sessions will be specifically targeting respectively MoF-DMO counsels, central bank counsels, and tax counsels.
Upon completion of this course, participants should:
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