Over the weekend Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis offered assurances that Greece would make its €459m repayment to the IMF - officials from the Greek finance ministry have confirmed that the payment has been made. 

During a meeting with IMF Managing Director, Christine Lagarde on Sunday in Washington - Mr Varoufakis repeated his pledge that Greece will meet "all obligations to all its creditors."

For analysts trying to figure out how long Greece can last without the benefit of unlocking the €7.2bn due on its original bailout programme the April 8th payment has been a key-date.

The Greeks have managed to raise €1.14bn in six-month treasury bills to keep itself afloat.

The country to due to repay €767m to the IMF on May 12th. Researchers from HSBC have labelled this date the real "crunch point" for Syriza and Greece.

Yanis Varoufakis has said that he hopes that a preliminary agreement can be reached between Greece and its creditors before the Eurogroup meeting of European finance ministers on April 24th.

Greek newspaper, Kathimerini reports that the euro zone's working group has given Greece until next Wednesday to amend its reform list.

European Commission Vice President, Valdis Dombrovskis has indicated that Greece is getting closer to a deal with its European partners:

"In recent weeks we are seeing some change of attitude from the Greek government’s side and they are becoming more serious in terms of actually implementing the program commitment, but there is still lots of work to do."

PM Alexis Tsipras met with Russian president Vladimir Putin yesterday - both sides have said that the possibility of Russia offering financial aid to Greece was not discussed.