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IFC wins approval for $1 billion Ghana local bond programme

The International Finance Corporation has secured approval to regularly issue local currency bonds in Ghana worth up to $1 billion to bolster the West African country’s domestic bond market, it said on Wednesday. IFC, the World Bank’s private sector arm, said Ghana’s Securities and Exchange Commission and the Ghana Stock […]

Fitch Rates First Bank of Nigeria’s Tier 2 Note Issue

Fitch Ratings has assigned First Bank of Nigeria Ltd’s (FBN; B+/Stable) USD300m 8.25% subordinated debt (Tier 2 notes) due August 2020 a final rating of ‘B-‘. The notes will be callable in August 2018, at which point the interest rate will reset to the sum of 6.875% plus the prevailing […]