Blue Chip Swap Securities - Argentina

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2024

Investments, Debt and Equity Securities [Abstract]

Blue Chip Swap Securities - Argentina

12 – Blue Chip Swap Securities - Argentina

The functional currency for our Argentine operations is the U.S. dollar and we use Argentina’s official exchange rate to remeasure our Argentine peso-denominated net monetary assets into U.S. dollars at each balance sheet date. The Central Bank of Argentina has maintained certain currency controls that limit our ability to access U.S. dollars in Argentina and remit cash from our Argentine operations. As such, we have used an indirect foreign exchange mechanism known as a Blue Chip Swap (“BCS”) which allows entities to remit U.S. dollars from Argentina through the purchase and sale of securities. During the second quarter of 2024 and 2023, we completed a series of BCS transactions at implied exchange rates (“BCS rates”) that were approximately 26% and 106% higher, respectively, than the official exchange rate, resulting in a loss of $10 million and $57

million, respectively.