{"id":4569,"date":"2021-06-15T11:13:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T11:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2021-06-15T11:13:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T11:13:59","slug":"afdb-launches-463-9m-kangaroo-social-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/2021\/06\/15\/afdb-launches-463-9m-kangaroo-social-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"AfDB launches $463.9m \u2018Kangaroo\u2019 Social Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The African Development Bank (AfDB) has initiated a 600-million-Australian-dollar (463.9-million-dollar) 5.5-year Kangaroo bond, marking its return to the Australian dollar bond market.<br>A Kangaroo bond, also known as a matilda bond, is a foreign bond issued in the Australian market by non-Australian firms and is denominated in Australian currency.<br>In a statement from AfDB on Monday, the bond is subject to the securities regulations of Australia.<br>AfDB Treasurer, Hassatou N\u2019sele, said that the transaction, announced on June 8, was led by Nomura and RBC Capital Markets.<br>According to her, the bond is the bank\u2019s first benchmark Kangaroo since early 2018, its first in the mid-curve since 2015 and its largest Australian dollar trade ever issued.<br>N\u2019sele said that the COVID-19 pandemic had led to a rise in global issuances of social bonds.<br>\u201cFollowing the groundbreaking 3.1 billion dollars three-year \u2018Fight COVID-19\u2019 Social Bond we issued in 2020, we\u2019re glad to see that public domestic markets, like the Kangaroo bond market, are now seeing similar development&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<a href=\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/afdb-launches-463-9m-kangaroo-social-bond\/\">TO CONTINUE READING CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Development Bank (AfDB) has initiated a 600-million-Australian-dollar (463.9-million-dollar) 5.5-year Kangaroo bond, marking its return to the Australian dollar bond market.A Kangaroo bond, also known as a matilda bond, is a foreign bond issued in the Australian market by non-Australian firms and is denominated in Australian currency.In a statement from AfDB on Monday, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[117,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4571,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions\/4571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}