CMA opens window for local firms to issue regional bonds

Capital Markets Authority (CMA) Chief Executive Officer Wycliffe Shamiah.

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The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has opened a window for Kenyan companies to issue bonds to investors across East Africa in a move aimed at diversifying the investor base and strengthening the region’s financial integration agenda.

The market regulator, through a special issue of the Kenya gazette supplement No 204, says a local company may raise funds by issuing a bond in any country in the region without restriction on where the proceeds of the issue will be used.

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