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The International Monetary Fund no longer considers Russian default "improbable", and the World Bank also considers Russia's and Belarus's default likely.
2022-03-10

Hundreds of protestors march in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum and call for the resignation of the transitional government after the government reduced bread and fuel subsidies in order to fulfill its obligations with the International Monetary Fund.
2021-06-30

Sudanese Finance Minister Ibrahim el-Badawi says Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is to ask the World Bank for US$2 billion. Sudan has been unable to do business with either the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund because it is featured on the United States' State Sponsors of Terrorism list. The US Congress is unlikely to remove Sudan before next year, el-Badawi further announces, saying he has been told the process is complicated.
2019-09-24

Christine Lagarde announces that she will step down as managing director of the International Monetary Fund on 12 September 2019.
2019-07-16

Greece has formally requested a new bailout loan from the International Monetary Fund.
2015-07-24

Former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn goes on trial in France on pimping charges.
2015-02-2

Former International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is summoned by French police to face questions about alleged involvement in a prostitution ring in the city of Lille.
2012-02-18

Lawyers for French novelist Tristane Banon say that she will file a criminal complaint accusing former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape.
2011-07-4

Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa issue a joint statement criticising Europe's 66-year stranglehold on the leadership of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), calling it "obsolete" and requesting that developing nations be given a chance.
2011-05-29

Christine Lagarde, the French Minister for Finance, announces her candidacy to be head of the International Monetary Fund.
2011-05-25