AIIB debut in GBP market unlocks new financing for sustainable development.
AIIB’s GBP 800 million five-year sustainable development bond is its fourth syndicated capital markets benchmark transaction in 2020, following successful 5-year and 3-year USD-denominated benchmarks and a debut Panda bond earlier in the year.The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) today priced its first GBP-denominated benchmark transaction. The five-year sustainable development bond raised GBP 800 million and will finance AIIB’s mission of financing infrastructure for tomorrow – investing in sustainable infrastructure to unlock new capital, new technologies and new ways in which to address climate change and to connect Asia, and the world.