{"id":246747,"date":"2026-10-09T21:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ivory-coast-issues-a-20-year-bond-a-first-for-the-region\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T21:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:00:24","slug":"cote-divoire-ivory-coast-issues-a-20-year-bond-a-first-for-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ivory-coast-issues-a-20-year-bond-a-first-for-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Ivory Coast Issues a 20-Year Bond, a First for the Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire issued a 20-year Obligation Assimilable du Tr\u00e9sor (OAT) on the West African Monetary Union (UMOA) government securities market. The issuance took place on Tuesday, October 6, 2026. This marks the first time an issuer from the Union has borrowed over such a long term on the regional financial market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">The issuance was conducted via auction, raising 50 billion CFA francs. The bonds carry a competitive coupon rate of 6.25%. Unlike bond issues placed through syndication on the Regional&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610080101.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 issued a 20-year Obligation Assimilable du Tr\u00e9sor (OAT) on the West African Monetary Union (UMOA) government securities market. The issuance took place on Tuesday, October 6, 2026. This marks the first time an issuer from the Union has borrowed over such a long term on the regional financial market. The issuance was conducted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246748,"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":[9794,258,256,10542,6560,5958,6183,6555,5959,8008,6559,1218,257,6324,254],"class_list":["post-246747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-20year","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bond","tag-coast","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-issues","tag-ivory","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-region","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\/246747","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=246747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}