As Klaus Regling, head of the eurozone rescue fund, sets off for Beijing with a collection tin, experts and government advisers said emerging markets would be open to but wary about putting anything in it.
Market participants and people involved in the negotiations said details of the planned special purpose investment vehicle (SPIV) remained too hazy to predict whether it would attract money from emerging market central bank reserves and sovereign wealth funds.
The negotiators have to try to balance the need for flexibility in using the money, including buying Spanish and Italian bonds on the open markets, with the credibility derived from having the International Monetary Fund control or house the money.