{"id":202744,"date":"2025-07-18T21:04:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ivory-coast-is-first-in-sub-saharan-africa-to-issue-esg-samurai-bonds\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T21:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:04:50","slug":"cote-divoire-ivory-coast-is-first-in-sub-saharan-africa-to-issue-esg-samurai-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ivory-coast-is-first-in-sub-saharan-africa-to-issue-esg-samurai-bonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Ivory Coast Is First in Sub-Saharan Africa to Issue ESG Samurai Bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ivory Coast has issued its first Samurai bond, raising 50 billion yen ($336 million) through a 10-year note at a 2.3% coupon<\/li>\n<li>The bond, denominated in Japanese yen and listed in Tokyo, makes the country the first sub-Saharan African sovereign with an active Samurai issuance<\/li>\n<li>The issuance also carries an ESG label&#8211;another first for an African issuer in the Samurai bond market<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Ivory Coast has issued its first Samurai bond, raising 50 billion yen ($336 million) through a 10-year note at a 2.3%&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507180154.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR Ivory Coast has issued its first Samurai bond, raising 50 billion yen ($336 million) through a 10-year note at a 2.3% coupon The bond, denominated in Japanese yen and listed in Tokyo, makes the country the first sub-Saharan African sovereign with an active Samurai issuance The issuance also carries an ESG label&#8211;another first for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,9531,6560,5958,6183,6555,5959,38803,8922,6559,1218,257,47135,254,15299],"class_list":["post-202744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bonds","tag-coast","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-esg","tag-issue","tag-ivory","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-samurai","tag-south-africa-today","tag-subsaharan"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}