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Egypt to allow brokers to buy bonds

  • Egypt: Thursday, October 01 - 2009 at 11:36

Egypt's Finance Ministry has announced its approval for brokerage firms to directly buy government bonds, in a bid to develop a secondary bond market for corporate and state debt, Reuters has reported. A secondary market would help in pricing debt and make bonds more attractive to buyers, thus making it easier for companies to raise funds. The creation of a bigger market should also help push down the cost of borrowing for both the government and corporations.

The government has appointed one brokerage, Cairo-based Beltone Capital, to be the first to buy government bonds within one or two months as a trial before other brokerage firms are brought in, the ministry said.
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