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A glance at the agreement for the Cyprus bailout

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[March 25, 2013]  BRUSSELS (AP) -- Authorities from Cyprus and the so-called troika of international lenders - the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund - reached agreement on a bailout loan for the country of up to 10 billion euros. A look at key parts of the deal:

-Cyprus had to come up with 5.8 billion euros somehow to secure the bailout.

-Depositors in the country's second-largest bank, Laiki, with accounts of more than 100,000 euros will lose an unspecified amount of their money. The move is expected to yield 4.2 billion euros overall - or most of the needed amount.

-The remainder of the money will come from tax increases and privatizations.

-Cyprus had to agree to restructure its banking sector, which is unusually large for the size of its economy.

-Laiki will be dissolved at once and split into a "good bank" and a "bad bank." The "good bank" portion of Laiki will be folded into the largest bank, the Bank of Cyprus.

[Associated Press]

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