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Debt swap |
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Debt swap A set of transactions in which a firm buys a country's dollar bank debt at a discount and swaps this debt with the central bank for local currency that it can use to acquire local equity. Also called a debt-equity swap. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Debt conversion, debt-for real-estate swaps, debt-for-development swaps, debt-for-nature swaps, and debt prepayment: the creditor exchanges the debt claim for something of economic value on the same debtor. Debt-for-nature swaps do have their critics, however. has arranged more than a dozen debt-for-nature swaps worth upwards of $170 million for conservation's sake, not only in Costa Rica and Guatemala, but also Bangladesh, Belize, Botswana, Colombia, El Salvador, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, the Philippines and Peru. |
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