{"id":58160,"date":"2019-11-30T10:05:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T10:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=58160"},"modified":"2020-01-29T12:32:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T12:32:17","slug":"pakistan-launch-panda-bonds-worth-usd-1-bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-launch-panda-bonds-worth-usd-1-bn.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to launch Panda bonds worth USD 1 bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The federal government has announced its decision to issue several Chinese currency-denominated bonds worth USD 1 billion in the former\u2019s bid to access China\u2019s capital markets, according to news sources.<\/p>\n<p>The issuance of these maiden renminbi-denominated \u2018Panda Bonds\u2019 was approved in a cabinet meeting, presided over by Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan. The Ministry of Finance has not sought the cabinet\u2019s approval for the bond size for this initial phase and expects to raise USD 500 million to USD 1 billion in different tranches; one of which is expected to take place in the current fiscal year (2019-20).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/plan-approved-to-float-yuan-denominated-panda-bonds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plan approved to float Yuan-denominated Panda bonds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The president and chief executive officer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/hbl-becomes-first-pakistani-bank-to-offer-end-to-end-rmb-mediation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Habib Bank Limited (HBL<\/a>) said in a press briefing that Pakistan was moving closer to initiate the Chinese bond sale, which would be the government\u2019s first-ever attempt to assess the Chinese capital market; which happens to be the third-largest bond market in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/yuan-based-trade-with-china-begins.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yuan-based trade with China begins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also revealed that the finance ministry would issue the bonds after obtaining credit ratings from Chinese agencies in a couple of months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The federal government has announced its decision to issue several Chinese currency-denominated bonds worth USD 1 billion in the former\u2019s bid to access China\u2019s capital markets, according to news sources. The issuance of these maiden renminbi-denominated \u2018Panda Bonds\u2019 was approved in a cabinet meeting, presided over by Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan. The Ministry of Finance has not sought the cabinet\u2019s approval for the bond size for this initial phase and expects to raise USD 500 million to USD 1 billion in different tranches; one of which is expected to take place in the current fiscal year (2019-20). Read:\u00a0Plan approved to float Yuan-denominated Panda bonds The president and chief executive officer of Habib Bank Limited (HBL) said in a press briefing that Pakistan was moving closer to initiate the Chinese bond sale, which would be the government\u2019s first-ever attempt to assess the Chinese capital market; which happens to be the third-largest bond market in the world. Read:\u00a0Yuan-based trade with China begins He also revealed that the finance ministry would issue the bonds after obtaining credit ratings from Chinese agencies in a couple of months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":50879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14206],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-pakistan-to-launch-panda-bonds-worth-usd-1-bn"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan to launch Panda bonds worth USD 1 bn - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The federal government has announced its decision to issue several Chinese currency-denominated bonds worth USD 1 billion in the former\u2019s bid\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-launch-panda-bonds-worth-usd-1-bn.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan to launch Panda bonds worth USD 1 bn - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The federal government has announced its decision to issue several Chinese currency-denominated bonds worth USD 1 billion in the former\u2019s bid\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-launch-panda-bonds-worth-usd-1-bn.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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