Trouble is the modern, connected world you can't go around as we did 30 years ago
Then a new financing package would have been put in place and a (relativaly) orderly process of informing the outside world would swing into place (while those in the know had already made their fortunes by trading ahead of the news of course)
These days everything you do is everywhere in seconds and all it takes is for someone to say to a mate "keep an eye on Monacrh" and the brown stuff is all over everyone............