{"id":546496,"date":"2026-05-15T00:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=546496"},"modified":"2026-05-15T00:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:51:17","slug":"pak-debuts-in-chinese-market-with-250m-panda-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/pak-debuts-in-chinese-market-with-250m-panda-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak debuts in Chinese market with $250m Panda Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inaugural Panda Bond is Pakistan\u2019s first RMB-denominated sovereign issuance in China\u2019s onshore capital market: Schehzad<br \/>\nMonitoring desk<br \/>\nIslamabad<br \/>\nPakistan on Thursday issued its first-ever Panda Bond in China\u2019s onshore capital market, Adviser to the Finance Minister Khurram Schehzad announced.<br \/>\n\u201cThe inaugural Panda Bond is a 3-year fixed-rate instrument, making it Pakistan\u2019s first-ever RMB-denominated sovereign issuance in China\u2019s onshore capital market,\u201d Schehzad wrote in a post on X. Pakistan had appeared on the radar screen of international investors when it launched Eurobond last month to raise $750 million. Islamabad also raised an additional $3 billion in deposits from Saudi Arabia and also returned $3.4 billion to the United Arab Emirates. Pakistan also received $1.3 billion from the IMF as well after getting approval of EFF and RSF tranches.<br \/>\nThe development comes a day after Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Muhammad Aurangzeb left for China to participate in the issuance ceremony of Pakistan\u2019s inaugural Panda Bond. In the statement, Schehzad said that the landmark Panda Bond issuance of RMB 1.75 billion (equivalent to US$250 million) attracted overwhelming investor demand of over RMB 8.8 billion (approximately US$1.26 billion), resulting in an oversubscription of more than 5 times. He further said: \u201cImportantly, demand for the inaugural tranche alone exceeded Pakistan\u2019s entire planned Panda Bond programme size of RMB 7.2bn (US$1 billion equivalent) \u2014 a powerful reflection of growing international investor confidence in Pakistan\u2019s economic outlook and reform trajectory.<br \/>\n\u201cThe strong order book enabled highly competitive pricing (2.5% coupon), demonstrating the market\u2019s positive assessment of Pakistan\u2019s improving macroeconomic fundamentals, external stability, disciplined fiscal management, and sovereign repayment capacity.\u201d<br \/>\nThe advisor said that issuance was more than a financing transaction as it marked Pakistan\u2019s entry into China\u2019s capital market and strengthened Pakistan-China financial cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inaugural Panda Bond is Pakistan\u2019s first RMB-denominated sovereign issuance in China\u2019s onshore capital market: Schehzad Monitoring desk Islamabad Pakistan on Thursday issued its first-ever Panda Bond in China\u2019s onshore capital market, Adviser to the Finance Minister Khurram Schehzad announced. \u201cThe inaugural Panda Bond is a 3-year fixed-rate instrument, making it Pakistan\u2019s first-ever RMB-denominated sovereign issuance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-546496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pak debuts in Chinese market with $250m Panda Bond<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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