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We Are Back To Capital Market After Restructuring $13Bn Eurobond Debt – Finance Minister

We Are Back To Capital Market After Restructuring $13Bn Eurobond Debt – Finance Minister

The Minister of Finance, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam has indicated that Ghana is back on the international capital market, following the successful conclusion of the $13 billion Eurobond debt restructuring. Addressing the press in Accra, Dr. Adam described the development as positive turn that will accelerate Ghana’s financial position in the international market. “We are back to the capital market. With this conclusion, our Eurobonds are going to start trading the very day we set off,” he said. He announced that government is considering other factors before borrowing from the capital market. “That is a decision we are yet to…
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Ghana To Start Eurobond Exchange Next Week To Wrap Up Debt Restructuring

Ghana To Start Eurobond Exchange Next Week To Wrap Up Debt Restructuring

Ghana will kick off a debt exchange program next week to wrap up its dollar bonds revamp. The process inviting investors to swap their existing securities for new ones will last 10 working days, Minister of State at the Ministry of Finance Abena Osei Asare said in an interview Thursday. Ghana’s eurobonds maturing in 2032 rose 0.2 cent to 51.64 cents on the dollar at 4:30 p.m. in London. Notes due 2035 gained 0.1 cent to 51.62 cents on the dollar. Ghana reached an agreement in principle with eurobond holders in June to rework $13 billion of eurobonds. The deal…
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Nigeria To Sell Domestic Dollar Bond, Eurobond Option Too Pricey

Nigeria To Sell Domestic Dollar Bond, Eurobond Option Too Pricey

Nigeria, which had hoped to issue a Eurobond this year, has decided to delay it and sell a debut dollar bond on the domestic market as it seeks to fund its budget deficit and shore up the battered naira. Finance Minister Wale Edun told an investor conference in Lagos, the commercial capital, on Thursday that the five-year, $500 million bond will be issued on Aug. 19. He said market conditions had not been ripe to proceed with the Eurobond, so the government will instead target Nigerians at home as well as the significant number who live abroad. “Interest rates are…
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