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Tunis defaults on legal costs to ICSID in BFT case

Tunisia has failed to make its final payment to the World Bank arbitration tribunal, which could result in it being ordered to pay several hundred million dollars in compensation to ABCI Investments. Proceedings are unlikely to be suspended. [...]

Published on 18.05.2022 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Tunisia
Saied looks to liquidate BFT to sidestep ICSID arbitration

The Tunisian president has set in motion the compulsory liquidation of the Banque franco-tunisienne (BFT), a bank that lies at the heart of drawn-out litigation with its former owner, ABCI Investments. After a mediation bid failed, the saga has gone back to arbitration.

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Tunisia
BFT case: False start on ICSID with ABCI

Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi almost immediately backtracked after he agreed to a mediation process with ABCI Investments, which is seeking $1bn in damages before the ICSID arbitration court.

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Herbert Smith and Quinn Emanuel back for final leg in explosive BFT case

Thirty-one years after the expropriation of Banque Franco-Tunisienne (BFT), the bank's former owner ABCI Investments should soon have closure on its arbitration against the Tunisian government, which is facing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.

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Washington concerned about risk of banking collapse

Like the IMF and World Bank before it, the Obama administration fears that the Tunisian banking sector could collapse and has put the Central Bank of Tunisia (CBT) under surveillance.After a four-year gap, the Treasury Department’s Office of Technical Assistance [.

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Tunis defaults on legal costs to ICSID in BFT case

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Saied looks to liquidate BFT to sidestep ICSID arbitration

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BFT case: False start on ICSID with ABCI

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