{"id":160987,"date":"2018-04-21T06:45:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T10:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=160987"},"modified":"2018-04-21T06:45:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T10:45:58","slug":"pnb-to-issue-usd300-m-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/21\/pnb-to-issue-usd300-m-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"PNB to issue USD300-M notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_126863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126863\" style=\"width: 316px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PNB-logo-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126863\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PNB-logo-1.gif\" alt=\"FILE: PNB (Photo: Philippine National Bank, Fair use)\" width=\"316\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-126863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: PNB (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=32572760\">Photo: Philippine National Bank, Fair use<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Tan-led Philippine National Bank (PNB) announced on Friday its scheduled issuance of USD300 million worth of five-year-and-one-day Fixed Rate Senior Notes as part of the bank\u2019s Medium-Term Note Program (MTNP).<\/p>\n<p>In a disclosure with the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), the bank said the Notes, to be settled on April 26, is the initial issuance under the bank\u2019s MTNP. The Notes have a coupon rate of 4.25 percent per annum and will be priced at 99.532 per 100.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProceeds of the Notes will be used for PNB\u2019s general corporate purposes,\u201d the disclosure said.<\/p>\n<p>The bank said the Notes have been rated Baa2 by Moody\u2019s Investors Service, same as the bank\u2019s ratings, and will be listed on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>It conducted a road show for the Notes issuance in Singapore and Hong Kong on April 16-18, which then attracted demand from about 118 investors, who submitted subscription of fourfolds, equivalent to some USD1.2 billion. The bulk of this demand, at about 86 percent, came from Asia while the balance of 14 percent came from Europe, Middle East and Africa.<\/p>\n<p>PNB tapped Citigroup, MUFG, Standard Chartered Bank and Wells Fargo Securities as joint arrangers and joint lead managers and joint book runners for the issuance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Tan-led Philippine National Bank (PNB) announced on Friday its scheduled issuance of USD300 million worth of five-year-and-one-day Fixed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":126863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[29941],"class_list":["post-160987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-philippine-national-bank","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}