{"id":224506,"date":"2026-02-20T12:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-cote-divoire-raises-1-3b-in-new-15-year-eurobond-issuance\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:27:06","slug":"cote-divoire-cote-divoire-raises-1-3b-in-new-15-year-eurobond-issuance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-cote-divoire-raises-1-3b-in-new-15-year-eurobond-issuance\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Raises $1.3b in New 15-Year Eurobond Issuance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire raised $1.3 billion on February 18, 2026 through a new 15-year international bond, marking its return to global debt markets with its lowest financing cost in five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The order book reached $6.3 billion, nearly five times the amount offered, with about 270 institutional investors participating. The bond was priced at a yield of 5.39% in euros after hedging exchange-rate risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">During the day of placement, the yield tightened by 63 basis points. The bond also recorded a negative&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602200001.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>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire raised $1.3 billion on February 18, 2026 through a new 15-year international bond, marking its return to global debt markets with its lowest financing cost in five years. The order book reached $6.3 billion, nearly five times the amount offered, with about 270 institutional investors participating. The bond was priced at a yield [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224507,"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":[53708,28266,258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,19105,17722,1218,257,5234,254],"class_list":["post-224506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-1-3b","tag-15year","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-eurobond","tag-issuance","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-raises","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/224506","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=224506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}