{"id":82248,"date":"2023-11-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2023\/11\/21\/foreign-holding-of-saudi-equities-debt-skyrockets-cma-report\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T00:00:00","slug":"foreign-holding-of-saudi-equities-debt-skyrockets-cma-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2023\/11\/21\/foreign-holding-of-saudi-equities-debt-skyrockets-cma-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign holding of Saudi equities, debt skyrockets \u2013CMA report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong>Foreign investors have growing appetite for KSA equities<\/strong>, with their holdings of Saudi shares listed on Tadawul rising to SAE 347 bn at the end of 2022, a 300% increase from the end of 2018, the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) said in an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cma.org.sa\/en\/Market\/Reports\/Documents\/cma_2022_report-en.pdf\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">annual report (pdf)<\/a> on Monday. Some SAR 180 bn worth of foreign investment has flowed into shares on the Tadawul\u2019s main market in the past five years, the authority said. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The CMA has been actively courting foreign institutional investors<\/strong> at the same time as global interest in the Saudi story has been rising. Foreigners held 14.2% of Tadawul\u2019s total freefloat shares at the end of last year, up from 3.8% in 2018, underscoring \u201cgrowing international confidence\u201d in the market, said CME Deputy President Abdullah Binghannam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>A penchant for Saudi debt? <\/strong>Foreign ownership of our debt has grown more than 10x since the market opened <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cma.org.sa\/en\/Market\/QFI\/Documents\/FI-EN.pdf\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">without restriction<\/a> to foreign investors in late 2020, according to the CMA. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>What they said<\/strong>: \u201cThe CMA has made <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-saudi-investment-idUSKCN1TR1SS\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">major efforts<\/a> in recent years to increase the attractiveness of the Saudi capital market to foreign investors and to encourage their entry and participation in the trading and offerings, as well as in the general assemblies of firms,\u201d the report read. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holdings of Saudi equities are up 300% since 2018, while appetite for debt is up 10x since late 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","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":[2704],"tags":[2419,10],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-82248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capital-markets","tag-capital-markets","tag-enterpriseam-ksa","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"bb522028-3fe0-4e60-8fa8-d5383ebbebb3","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Foreign holding of Saudi equities, debt skyrockets \u2013CMA report","related_issue":[82242],"teaser":"Holdings of Saudi equities are up 300% since 2018, while appetite for debt is up 10x since late 2020","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2024\/1\/.90012718-2f2f-407d-8ca2-fbbc9032aa63.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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