The announcement from Jamil Mahuad, the president of Ecuador, that the country would not meet a coupon payment on its Brady bonds due at the end of August and that Ecuador intends to restructure its $13 billion of foreign debt, has dismayed banks and investors across the developed world.
No sovereign has yet defaulted on its already-once-restructured Brady debt. The Brady deals of the early 1990s marked a decisive step forward for many emerging-market borrowers which had defaulted on their bank loans, rehabilitating them into the abundant liquidity of the international bond markets.
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