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sexta-feira, setembro 02, 2011

Debt Workout 101 – games borrowers and lenders play

Debt Workout 101 - part 1 

Here are some Sovereign/External Debt Workout Strategies for 
imprudent overleveraged irresponsible borrowers and 
their imprudent  overextended irresponsible lenders.
  1. First rule of debt workout:  If you owe the bank 1.000€  and you can’t pay, you have a problem. If you owe 1.000.000€ and you can’t pay, the bank has a problem (add zeros as appropriate). 
  2. Bigger fool gambit:  Creditors increase pricing, reduce tenors and refuse to refinance, increase demands for repayment as the borrower turn to other creditors or third-party guarantors, usually related (a rich uncle) or official creditors (Central Banks).  Last creditor out is a rotten egg.
  3. Asset grab:  Creditors demand reinforcement of third party guarantees or collateral.  Possession is nine-tenths of the law, but Watch out for invalid preferential transfers in the last few months before bankruptcy. 
  4. Small creditor gambit: Smaller creditors hold out for  favourable treatment so that they don’t have to share in the creditor side sacrifices
  5. All-in-this together gambit: Rapidly escalate local (borrower-side) problem into a systemic (creditor-side)  problem, in order to get a favourable resolution from policymakers (or third-party guarantors), such as taxpayer bailout for the borrower and/or the creditors.  This is a more transparent version of the “bigger-fool-gambit”. 
  6. Game of chicken: Borrowers pay late, threatenning to default, in order to overcome the creditors reluctance to modify  loans conditions or to sell  the loan assets at discount. 
  7. Bottom fishing:  Speculative debt traders buy distressed debt at deep discount and present it for payment at maturity, to the borrower, or better yet, to the related party, wealty shareholder or guarantor (as in the Bigger-fool-gambit). 
  8. My Dad  is stronger than yours:  Bringing third and fourth parties to the debt renegotiation table, preferably heavy-duty entities like a major Shareholder or Stakeholder or even the Constitutional Courts, etc, in order to skew the loss-sharing in favour of either the imprudent borrower or the imprudent lender and their respective shareholdr / taxpayer.       A slightly different version of this is "my streets are rowdier than yours".  In either case, inflexibility and other uncooperative behaviour pays. 
  9. Don't look under the carpet, where all the hidden liabilites have been stashed...
Mariana Abrantes de Sousa
PPP Lusofonia

See also
Foreign claims or Portugal, Greece...
Portugal e Grécia apanhados no jogo do empurra 
Trade midgets can't guarantee intra-Eurozone CAB adjustments
SOE/SEE debt coming home to roost 
Bill Rohdes,  book on sovereign debt restructuring 
Mariana Abrantes de Sousa, A gestão de risco de crédito com principal factor de sucesso bancário, Revista da Banca, Setembro 1992
Bank risk management, http://ppplusofonia.blogspot.com/2011/03/gestao-de-riscos-de-credito-distingue.html
S Ping Ho, Game theory and PPP renegotiation

7 comentários:

  1. Another basic rule is to require a change of management: managers responsible for the problem seldom have the capacity to find and implement the solution

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  2. It would be a lot more transparent if the creditors' Constitutional Court also focused on the constitutionality of bailing out their own imprudent lenders, not only on the constitutionality of coming to the aid of the imprudent borrowers.
    "Games creditors and borrowers play" do involve bringing lots of extraneous issues and third and fourth paries to the table, but the bottom line is always the same: how to share the losses of imprudent lending/borrowing, the lender or the borrower and their respective shareholders/taxypayers.
    SEE above

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  3. Ver Theunissen
    Strategic Debt Service
    summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/7494/b19321168.pdf

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  4. Small Creditor Gambit e Asset grab - a Finlândia a exigir condições e garantias especiais para novos créditos à Grécia

    My Dad is bigger than yours - a ameaça de que Tribunal Constitucional alemão possa declarar os novos créditos à Grécia insconstituicionais; teriam depois de que olhar para a constitucionalidade de novos apoios aos bancos credores alemães

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  5. "Countries don't go out of business"
    said Wriston the ceo of Citibank, circa 1982

    http://calibrecon.blogspot.com/2008/10/countries-dont-go-out-of-business.html

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  6. Os credores também quebramsexta-feira, 15 junho, 2012

    Contencioso de crédito, também conhecido como apanhar cacos...

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  7. Os pombos-correio trazem más noticias ao MOPTC no antigo Palácio do Correio-Mor, agora conhecido como o Palácio Penafiel

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