Slow start to year as proceeds raised by Singapore bond offerings drop 21.5%
Biggest Singapore dollar bond offerings to date this year are LTA's S$1.2b issue and HDB's S$600m and S$515m issues
Singapore
PRIMARY bond offerings from Singapore-domiciled issuers raised some US$6.7 billion to date this year, down 21.5 per cent from the first quarter of 2017.
This is the slowest start to a year for Singapore bond offerings since 2015's proceeds of US$6.1 billion, according to Thomson Reuters' review of Singapore debt capital markets.
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