Brady Plan

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The Brady Plan was a late-1980s international debt-restructuring initiative that converted developing countries’ bank loans into tradable bonds to resolve the Latin American debt crisis.

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instanceOf international financial initiative
sovereign debt restructuring program
addressesProblem 1980s developing-country debt overhang
Latin American debt crisis
announcedInYear 1989
appliesTo Latin American countries
developing countries
sovereign external bank debt
coordinatedWith Paris Club debt treatments
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
developedInPeriod late 1980s
field international finance
sovereign debt management
firstMajorImplementationCountry Mexico
firstMajorImplementationYear 1990
historicalContext collapse of voluntary bank lending to Latin America
global rise in interest rates in early 1980s
post-1982 Mexican debt crisis
implementedInCountry Argentina
Brazil
Bulgaria
Costa Rica
Ecuador
Jordan
Mexico
Morocco
Nigeria
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Uruguay
Venezuela
implementedThrough exchange of syndicated bank loans for bonds
voluntary participation by commercial banks
influencedLater subsequent sovereign debt restructuring frameworks
introducedInstrument Brady bonds
keyMechanism conversion of bank loans into tradable bonds
debt and debt-service reduction
menu of restructuring options for creditor banks
use of collateralized bonds
namedAfter Nicholas F. Brady NERFINISHED
negotiatedBetween debtor governments and commercial bank creditor committees
policyShiftFrom case-by-case rescheduling without principal reduction
policyShiftTo market-based debt and debt-service reduction
positionHeldByProposer Secretary of the Treasury
surface form: United States Secretary of the Treasury
primaryGoal reduce commercial bank debt burdens of developing countries
resolve the Latin American debt crisis
restore access to international capital markets for debtor countries
proposedBy Nicholas F. Brady NERFINISHED
region Latin America
requires IMF-supported adjustment programs
World Bank structural adjustment lending
macroeconomic reform programs in debtor countries
resultedIn creation of a liquid secondary market for emerging market debt
improved debt sustainability for participating countries
increased role of bond financing in emerging markets
reduction of commercial bank exposure to sovereign debt
supportedBy International Monetary Fund
United States Department of the Treasury
surface form: United States Treasury

World Bank
major commercial banks
usesCollateral U.S. Treasury securities
surface form: U.S. Treasury zero-coupon bonds

high-grade securities as collateral for principal
rolling interest guarantees

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Nicholas F. Brady notableWork Brady Plan
Nicholas F. Brady knownFor Brady Plan
Baker Plan precedes Brady Plan
Baker Plan replacedBy Brady Plan
Baker Initiative succeededBy Brady Plan
Latin American debt crisis ledTo Brady Plan