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Citigroup economist Ebrahim Rahbari was the one who came up with the term Grexit back in February 2012. Back then, they felt that there would be a 50% risk for Greece's exit from the Eurozone over the coming 18 months and 90% until 2014. The use of the term rocketed in 2015, with the addition of more terms such as Grexident and Grexodus.

Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has signed on a number of specialized economists to help come up with ways to take Greece out of its quandary.

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The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group, has announced that it will help Turkish Eximbank provide medium- and long-term funds to Turkish exporters.

Bulgaria has repaid in full a EUR 1.5 B bridge loan taken out last December, saving nearly four million euro in spending on interest payments.

Bulgaria has sold a EUR 3.1 B triple-tranche bond comprising of seven-, 12- and 20-year maturities on foreign markets, the Finance Ministry said on Friday.

The volume is the biggest amount of debt issued by a country in the region of Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA) through a single syndicate of banks, the Finance Ministry said in a statement.

Bulgaria is marketing euro bonds in three lots maturing respectively in seven, 12 and 20 years, Reuters reported on Thursday.

"The seven-year bond is being offered to investors at mid-swaps plus 195bp area, the 12-year tranche at mid-swaps plus 225bp area while the longest tranche is being offered to investors at mid-swaps plus 260bp area," the newswire said.

Turkish lender Akbank has mandated a consortium of international banks to renew its syndicated loan amounting to a total of $1.2 billion, it said March 13 in a written statement to the Public Disclosure Platform.

Citigroup has sold its nearly 10 percent stake in Turkey?s Akbank for $1.2 billion, the U.S. lender said on March 5, its latest disposal of overseas assets to cut costs and boost profits.

New York-based Citi has been paring back in international markets in recent years, pulling out of retail banking inTurkey as well as long-established businesses such as Japan.

Protests organized by the Bulgarian opposition are expected as lawmakers are beginning their session of a government proposal to take on fresh foreign borrowing worth BGN 16 M, or EUR 8 B.

Citigroup, HSBC, Societe Generale and Unicredit have been selected by Bulgaria's government to manage its global medium-term bond programme worth EUR 8 B, according to a new draft bill now before Parliament.