{"id":663523,"date":"2025-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2025\/04\/10\/government-plans-on-issuing-usd-2-bn-in-sukuk-in-2025-through-multiple-offerings-kouchouk-says\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T00:00:00","slug":"government-plans-on-issuing-usd-2-bn-in-sukuk-in-2025-through-multiple-offerings-kouchouk-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2025\/04\/10\/government-plans-on-issuing-usd-2-bn-in-sukuk-in-2025-through-multiple-offerings-kouchouk-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Government plans on issuing USD 2 bn in sukuk in 2025 through multiple offerings, Kouchouk says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong>Egypt is planning on issuing USD 2 bn in sukuk in 2025 through multiple offerings<\/strong>, with the government already having appointed banks for the issuance, Finance Minister Ahmed Kouchouk told <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/rates-bonds\/egypt-plans-issue-2-billion-sukuk-2025-finance-minister-reuters-2025-04-09\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> yesterday. The government is also open to debt-for-investment swap agreements akin to last year\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/b0b97fcf-95b0-4d39-86ae-0a4989221520\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Ras El Hekma agreement<\/a> as a means of securing FX, Kouchouk told the newswire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The announcement came despite the continued fall in the value of the EGP<\/strong>, which saw Egypt\u2019s currency dip to a record low. More on that in the news well, above.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The banks involved in the issuance are the same ones that managed our maiden sukuk <\/strong><strong>issuance in <\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/8098cfcf-0e05-49cc-8f1a-20cdc83b9059\/it%25e2%2580%2599s-showtime-for-our%253cmark%253e-maiden%253c%2Fmark%253e-sovereign%253cmark%253e-sukuk%253c%2Fmark%253e-issuance\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">February 2023<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 HSBC and Citibank, along with Dubai Islamic Bank, First Abu Dhabi Bank, and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank \u2014 a senior government source told EnterprimeAM, confirming what <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AsharqbEGY\/status\/1909848755253227548\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Asharq Business<\/a> reported earlier yesterday. In addition, the publication wrote that the issuance would have a value of up to USD 1.5 bn, which our source confirmed as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The details:<\/strong> The banks will focus on promoting the new issuance through meetings arranged with investors in the Gulf and East Asian countries, our source said. The timing will be determined by the offering advisors, but it will take place during the current quarter, with procedures and roadshows expected to take around two months, the source added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The issuance is expected to come in small tranches with varying maturities <\/strong>\u2014 possibly up to three tranches \u2014 in an effort to reduce the expected yield and increase the offering\u2019s appeal, our source continued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>\u201cIssuing the sukuk comes as part of the government\u2019s push towards diversifying its <\/strong><strong>debt in<\/strong><strong>struments,<\/strong> and I think the next few months will show the level of stability in the local market and the attractiveness of this issuance,\u201d economist Mona Bedair told EnterpriseAM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The banks involved in the issuance are the same ones that managed our maiden sukuk issuance in February 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":663524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7274],"tags":[88,72,276,280],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-663523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-debt-watch","tag-debt-watch","tag-enterpriseam","tag-finance-ministry","tag-sukuk","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"b6b41452-184e-4beb-b7f7-95a2a922a329","order":"6","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2024\/12\/745.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Egypt plans on issuing USD 2 bn in sukuk in 2025 through multiple offerings, Kouchouk says","related_issue":[663513],"teaser":"The banks involved in the issuance are the same ones that managed our maiden sukuk issuance in February 2023","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2025\/4\/.ce3b526a-30fe-418b-ade2-624e549cff4f.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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