The authors find that ‘interest rates increase by about 10 basis points after borrowers mandatorily adopt IFRS … By contrast, interest rates to borrowers from benchmark countries decrease by 24 basis points during the same period’. They also find that, ‘relative to the benchmark sample, IFRS borrowers experience a significant reduction in both their use of accounting-based financial covenants and loan maturity; however, they experience a significant increase in collateral provisions’.