June 2, 2017

Traditional approaches to sovereign debt management will have to adapt to cope with new risks and structural and regulatory changes, even as major macroeconomic shifts in advanced and developing economies are affecting sovereign issuance strategies; these changes present opportunities but also challenges. That message underlay much of the discussion during the Sixteenth Public Debt Management Forum, co-hosted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Mexican Ministry of Finance, held during June 1-2 and bringing together senior officials from 31 advanced and emerging market economies, international financial institutions, and leading global and Mexican private sector firms.