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The Central Bank of Sri Lanka, on behalf of the Sri Lankan government successfully priced a new US$1.5 billion 10-year international sovereign bond on 
May 4th. 
The bond issue has been rated ‘B1’, ‘B+’ and ‘B+’ by Moody’s Investors Service, Standard and Poor’s and Fitch Ratings respectively. 
This marks Sri Lanka’s eleventh U.S. dollar benchmark offering in the international bond markets since 2007 and is a clear testament of the international investor community’s continued support for Sri Lanka through the years. 
Citigroup, CITIC CLSA Securities, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, ICBC International, J.P. Morgan and Standard Chartered Bank acted as the Joint Lead Managers and Bookrunners on this successful transaction. 
The transaction was undertaken on the back of a strong market window post the Federal Open Market Committee minutes release and ahead of the Nonfarm payroll and the French elections. 
The transaction also coincided with the International Monetary Fund staff-level agreement that was released a day before on May 3rd. 
The transaction with an initial price guidance of 6.625 percent area was announced during the Asia morning of May 4th, and saw strong interests from a wide range of high quality investors, allowing Sri Lanka to tighten final price guidance to 6.250 percent area (+/-5 basis points) at the Asia evening on the back of books which were in excess of US$7.5 billion. 
The bonds eventually priced during New York hours at 6.20 percent reflecting a 42.5 basis points compression, well inside the initial price guidance for a final transaction size of US$1.5 billion. 
The final order book was in excess of US$11 billion, achieving an oversubscription ratio of over 7 times, spread across 500 participating accounts. 
“This clearly reflects investors’ continued confidence in Sri Lanka and their positive outlook on the Sri Lankan economic growth story,” the Central Bank said.
Further, compared to the 2016 spread between US Treasury 10 year yield and 10 year Sri Lanka bonds yield, 2017 spread has substantially declined indicating a reduction in the risk premium demanded by 
the investors. 
Geographical distribution was well diversified, with 58 percent of the final allocations going to the U.S., 22 percent to Europe, and the remaining 20 percent to Asia. 
By investor type, the split was 83 percent to fund managers, 9 percent to banks, 5 percent to insurance and pension funds, and the remaining 3 percent to other investors. 

 


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