Bondholders negotiating a debt swap with Greece have made their“maximum” offer, leaving it to the European Union and InternationalMonetary Fund to decide whether to accept the deal, the negotiatorfor private creditors said.

Charles Dallara, managing director of the Washington-basedInstitute of International Finance, said he's hopeful the EU andIMF will agree to terms for private investor involvement in arescue of Greece to avert a default and collapse of the economy.Negotiations were unresolved as EU finance ministers prepared tomeet in Brussels today.

“The elements now are in place for an historical voluntary PSIdeal,” Dallara told Athens-based Antenna TV yesterday. “It's aquestion now, really, of the broader reaction of the Europeanofficial sector and, of course, of the IMF to this proposal.”

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