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My guest today is Sarah Piersada Osmani, head of Sustainable Asset and Project Finance at

FAB.

FAB has committed to lend, arrange and facilitate up to US dollar 75 billion of

sustainable finance by 2030.

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To me, context is about pattern recognition.

It's connecting the dots.

It's giving readers an ability to synthesize

a number of different perspectives

so they can understand how the greater whole works,

because nothing really occurs in isolation anymore.

I'm Tim O'Brien and I'm the senior executive editor at Bloomberg Opinion.

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Start exploring our opinion coverage and more at Bloomberg.com slash subscribe. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Odd Lots Podcast. I'm Tracy Allaway. My co-host, Joe Wisenthal, is away this week. I believe he is sampling the electric scooter scene over in Los Angeles, but this actually gives me an opportunity

to dig into a slightly geekier subject and that would be sovereign debt restructuring.

This is when governments opt to exchange their loans or bonds for new loans or bonds,

you know, typically less expensive ones, or when they decide to pay back their debt at a slower pace or a cheaper pace or whatever.

All of this hashed out amongst lawyers, typically acting on behalf of the borrower,

the country that borrowed the money and the lenders, the investors that lent it. the But before you turn this podcast off, we are actually going to be marrying one of the biggest

stories in finance and markets right now with the theme of sovereign debt restructuring.

And that story is 1MDB, the 1 MDB scandal that is currently rocking Asia and has certainly extended beyond the region all the way over to Goldman Sachs in New York.

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