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15 November, 2026, 05:40 pm
Last modified: 15 November, 2026, 05:41 pm
The government plans to issue its first-ever sovereign bond in the international market from early January as part of efforts to diversify development financing and reduce reliance on traditional multilateral and bilateral lenders.
Speaking to journalists after attending an international debt conference in Cox’s Bazar today (15 November), Finance and Planning Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury said, “The country needs to explore alternative funding sources to meet the foreign currency requirements of development projects.
“If we issue bonds only in the local market, we will still have to go to the international market if foreign currency is needed for development projects. So, we have to move towards alternative financing. Instead of relying only on multilateral or bilateral sources for loans, we need to explore alternative financing opportunities,” he said.
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