Puerto Rico

U.S. lawmakers want Puerto Rico board to focus on economic growth and freeze debt service payments.

The Puerto Rico Oversight Board’s Title III cases got new case numbers on Thursday.

The COFINA bond trustee declared a default and COFINA Senior holders called for payments to COFINA Subordinate holders to end.

Puerto Rico and its creditors are set to meet for the first time in court on May 17 in San Juan before U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain to begin restructuring the island’s debt.

Illinois lacks a path to restructure state debt but Puerto Rico's filing heightened chatter.

The Puerto Rico Oversight Board extended the deadline for Gov. Rosselló to submit the FY2018 budget by two weeks.

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority said Monday it is seeking approval from the Oversight Board for its deal with its creditors that was reached outside the court supervised restructuring that's underway for other issuers in the territory.

The Oversight Board certified a Title III filing for the Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp., affirming that its $17.9 billion of revenue bonds will be subject to court supervised restructuring along with other territorial debt.

Last week’s filing of Title III by the Oversight Board, which sets the stage for a court-supervised reorganization of Puerto Rico’s debt, was just the start of a critical series of decisions for investors in the commonwealth’s bonds. There may be developments on several Puerto Rico fronts this week.

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló and his financial advisors are insisting that the Title III judge cannot review the amount of debt that Puerto Rico will pay in the next ten years.