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  "title": "Public Debt Management Forum Confronts the Changes, Innovations and Future Challenges in Sovereign Markets",
  "publication": "IMF News, June 2, 2017",
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  "summary": "Press Release No. 17/205",
  "publishDate": "2017-06-02",
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      "heading": "Event overview",
      "content": "- Press Release No. 17/205\n- Date: June 2, 2017\n- Forum: Sixteenth Public Debt Management Forum\n- Hosts: International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Mexican Ministry of Finance\n- Dates held: June 1-2\n- Participants: senior officials from 31 advanced and emerging market economies, international financial institutions, and leading global and Mexican private sector firms\n- Media contact: PRESS OFFICER: Randa Mohamed Elnagar; Phone: +1 202 623-7100; Email: MEDIA@IMF.org"
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      "heading": "Key messages and findings",
      "content": "- Traditional approaches to sovereign debt management will have to adapt to cope with:\n  - new risks\n  - structural and regulatory changes\n  - major macroeconomic shifts in advanced and developing economies\n- These changes affect sovereign issuance strategies and present both opportunities and challenges.\n- Debt management underpins the credibility and reputation of a sovereign and reinforces the stability of:\n  - debt markets\n  - financial institutions that hold public debt (statement by Mr. Tao Zhang, IMF’s Deputy Managing Director)\n- The IMF engages in debt management through:\n  - policy advice and analysis with member countries\n  - regional and global analysis\n  - forward-thinking analysis of critical issues like medium-term debt strategy and local currency bond markets\n  - technical assistance and capacity building"
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      "heading": "Perspectives from hosts",
      "content": "- Mr. Tao Zhang (IMF Deputy Managing Director):\n  - Emphasized the role of debt management in sovereign credibility and market stability.\n  - Highlighted IMF engagement in analysis, advice, and capacity building on debt management.\n- Ms. Vanessa Rubio (Deputy Minister of Finance, Mexico):\n  - Framed the Forum as an opportunity for Mexico to contribute ideas, experiences, and policy actions to address challenges facing debt managers.\n  - Noted that Mexico’s debt management strategy, as part of a comprehensive set of policy actions aimed to strengthen economic fundamentals, has been an important tool to support markets.\n  - Applauded the Forum as a stage to promote innovation in debt management to enhance efficiency and contribute to financial stability."
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      "heading": "Forward-looking note",
      "content": "- The next IMF Public Debt Management Forum will take place in 2019. Details will be announced closer to the time.\n\nIMF Press Release No. 17/205, June 2, 2017\n\n---\n\n\n References\n\n- Press Releases\n- PRESS CENTER\n- https://www.imf.org/en/home\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/news/articles/2017/06/02/pr17205-public-debt-management-forum-confronts-the-changes-innovations-and-future-challenges"
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    "Forum: Sixteenth Public Debt Management Forum",
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    "Dates held: June 1-2",
    "Participants: senior officials from 31 advanced and emerging market economies, international financial institutions, and leading global and Mexican private sector firms",
    "Media contact: PRESS OFFICER: Randa Mohamed Elnagar; Phone: +1 202 623-7100; Email: MEDIA@IMF.org",
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