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Legal Guidance Note Oct10
One sole borrowing agent. The minister of finance or equivalent
must be the sole borrowing agent for the government and able to incur liabilities on the government’s behalf, to issue securities, to approve guarantees, and related tasks. No other person or body should, without the prior approval of the minister, raise any loan or issue any guarantee, or take any other action which may in any way either directly or indirectly result in a liability being incurred by the government. 47. In relation to these powers, a few additional points should be noted: a) The legislative meaning of ‘securities’ or borrowing instruments generally must be sufficiently wide. Indeed it is preferable to generalise to all transactions needed for debt management. Thus the minister should normally have powers to undertake repos, currency and interest-rate swaps, and hedging transactions. 33 The powers of the minister must also extend to portfolio management operations such as loan conversions, debt swaps, switch auctions and the exercise of options (such as early redemptions). Such a power need not be open-ended, but could be used, for example only, ‘in support of the objectives set out in the debt management strategy’. b) In this context, the minister should have the power when issuing debt instruments also to set the terms and conditions. This allows the debt manager the necessary flexibility to take into account other factors, such as the cost-risk trade-off and debt market development, while also responding to investor demands. c) It may be helpful, indeed advisable, to note the form in which securities are issued (usually in book entry or dematerialised form; although physical certificates may still be used). If it is not clear in other 32 For the purpose of public debt restructuring, Section 15 of The Public Debt Management Act (2005) of Thailand provides authority to the Ministry of Finance to, ‘repay debt for a State enterprise or a State financial institution. Such agency shall, after repayment (by Ministry of Finance), owe the Ministry of Finance in an amount equal to the amount paid by the Ministry of Finance, plus all expenses incurred in such repayment’. 33 Although the legal framework may not prohibit debt managers from undertaking hedging activities, or use other over-the-counter products, it is of course important that only countries with adequate risk evaluation and management capacity in practice do so. Download 158.87 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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