Director-General, Debt Management Office (DMO), Mrs Patience Oniha, says Sukuk issuance may be up scaled to include other projects in future.<\/p>\n\n\n
Oniha stated this at the third edition of Islamic Finance News Nigeria Road show, organised by Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Ltd., on Wednesday in Lagos.<\/p>\n\n\n
The theme of the show was \u201cSystemic Restart: Islamic Finance in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
The event, held virtually in, collaboration with REDMoney Group, was aimed at promoting the growth and development of \u201cIslamic Finance Industry\u2019\u2019 within the Nigerian economy.<\/p>\n\n\n
It was also targetted at facilitating the growth of a new asset class in the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n
Oniha, who maintained that the diversification might not be immediate, said that all the three Sukuk issuances had been raised for road infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n
According to her, the Sukuk issuance initiative by DMO is to raise local borrowing through, adding that this has been successful since its first issuance in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cCertainly, we are working on Sukuk issuance for 2021. We have already received notification of interest; we are in the process of appointing transaction parties.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cI expect that by the third quarter of this year (2021), it will be out; it will almost be the same structure, although tenure may be different.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cIt depends on where market is at that time, what the cost is and also, what works with our medium term debt management strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cOn the long term, because market understands it, we also understand it; it may also be for road; that is the approval we have received. You know we have been using Sukuk for road projects.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cGoing forward however, it may not be in the immediate term and not even next year; we need to upscale the Sukuk issuance to include other projects,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n\n\n
The DMO director-general added that the issuance could be used to support other projects that would be revenue- generating to service the Sukuk, even if it had to be issued in another currency.<\/p>\n\n\n
She further explained that the existing capital market master plan recognised non-interest banking, which was initiated by CBN, followed by the capital market, which also recognised non-interest financial products.<\/p>\n\n\n
On deepening retail investments to position the capital market for economic growth, Oniha noted that the NGX had always been supportive of new products as well as the FMDQ.<\/p>\n\n\n
She said, \u201cTo develop the market, we really need to have a more diversified base of investors for all the products, especially as government looks into huge investments on infrastructure for which funds may not all come from it.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cThe market already has a good structure in terms of trading.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cWe started from the wholesale market and later started coming to the retail market when we realised that those were the ones you needed to create awareness on and make easy for them to subscribe.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n
According to her, all the three Sukuk issuances have been over-subscribed by 10 per cent.<\/p>\n\n
Director-General, Debt Management Office (DMO), Mrs Patience Oniha, says Sukuk issuance may be up scaled to include other projects in future. Oniha stated this at the third edition of Islamic Finance News Nigeria Road show, organised by Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Ltd., on Wednesday in Lagos. The theme of the show was \u201cSystemic Restart: Islamic Finance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[654],"class_list":["post-30715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-money","tag-sukuk","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"\n