The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and insurance companies that guarantee repayment on some of its bonds are in talks to delay payments to free up cash and and help restructure $8.3 billion of debt, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
A compromise with MBIA Inc., Assured Guaranty Ltd. and Syncora Guarantee Inc. is the missing piece in a plan announced last month in which some holders of uninsured bonds agreed to take a 15 percent loss in a debt exchange. The parties are working out details that would ease near-term debt payments, said the people, who asked for anonymity because the talks are private.
