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In the second round, creditors converted their existing claims into their choice among the "menu" of options agreed upon in the first round. The penalties for creditors failing to comply with the terms of the deal were never made explicit. Nevertheless, compliance was not an important problem under
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Stakeholders involved in Brady Bond debt restructuring and transactions. Dollar values on outstanding loans and bonds are illustrative; bonds were rarely issued for less than US$ 125 million, and lenders frequently accepted either 30–50% losses on face value or reduced interest rates fixed at
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By offering a "menu" of options, the Brady Plan permitted credit restructurings to be tailored to the heterogeneous preferences of creditors. The terms achieved under the deals indicate that debtors used the menu approach to reduce the cost of debt reduction. Furthermore, it reduced the
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below-market values. According to EMTA, a financial industry trade association, most lenders that accepted Brady bonds for outstanding loans were smaller US commercial banks or non-US financial institutions, rather than "major money center banks."
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were issued to the same value as the original loan, but the coupon on the bonds is below market rate; principal and interest payments are usually guaranteed.
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were issued at a discount to the original value of the loan, but the coupon is at market rate; principal and interest payments are usually guaranteed.
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rights. Not all Brady bonds would necessarily have all those forms of guarantee, and the specifics would vary from issuance to issuance.
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the Brady Plan. Banks wishing to cease their foreign lending activities tended to choose the exit option under the auspices of the deal.
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embedded in the bonds, "stepped" coupons, pars and discounts) were retained in the later sovereign restructurings in, for example,
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in which certain holders have an incentive not to participate in the restructuring in the hope of getting a better deal.
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Although the Brady bond process ended during the 1990s, many of the innovations introduced in these restructurings (
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to exchange their claims on developing countries into tradable instruments, allowing them to get the debt off their
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Participating countries were to liberalize their economies in order to qualify for Brady Bonds.
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Countries that participated in the initial round of issuing Brady bonds were
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The key innovation behind the introduction of Brady Bonds was to allow the
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on their debt in the 1980s. At the time, the market for emerging markets'
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debt facilitated risk-spreading and trading. In exchange for commercial
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Brady bonds were created in March 1989 to convert bank loans, mostly in
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The principal amount was usually collateralized by specially issued
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to guarantee the principal, rolling interest guarantees, and
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Treasury press release on Mexico retiring its Brady bonds
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countries in the late 1980s. The bonds were named after
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bought back all of its Brady bonds in May 2007, joining
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became the first country to retire its Brady debt. The
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