{"id":3441,"date":"2025-06-19T06:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T01:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2025-06-19T14:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:37:31","slug":"pakistan-secures-1bn-five-year-finance-deal-with-adb-guarantee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/06\/19\/pakistan-secures-1bn-five-year-finance-deal-with-adb-guarantee","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Secures $1bn Five-Year Finance Deal with ADB Guarantee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"190\" data-end=\"461\"><strong>ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Finance has signed a USD 1,000 million syndicated term finance facility, backed partially by a Policy-Based Guarantee from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) under its \u201cImproved Resource Mobilization &amp; Utilisation Reform\u201d program.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"463\" data-end=\"586\">This major transaction is structured as a 5-year multi-tranche facility, comprising both Islamic and conventional tranches.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"588\" data-end=\"624\">Key Institutions Behind the Deal<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"626\" data-end=\"789\">Dubai Islamic Bank acted as the Sole Islamic Global Coordinator, while Standard Chartered Bank served as the Mandated Lead Arranger and Bookrunner.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"791\" data-end=\"966\">Additional financiers include Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (Mandated Lead Arranger), and Sharjah Islamic Bank, Ajman Bank, and Habib Bank Limited (HBL) as Arrangers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"968\" data-end=\"1194\">The Islamic tranche, compliant with AAOIFI standards, makes up 89% of the financing \u2014 demonstrating Pakistan\u2019s growing appeal to Shariah-compliant financial institutions. The remaining 11% is from conventional lenders.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1196\" data-end=\"1230\">Strengthening Fiscal Stability<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1232\" data-end=\"1372\">This is the first-ever facility supported by ADB\u2019s Policy-Based Guarantee, tied directly to policy reform commitments from Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1374\" data-end=\"1550\">The transaction marks Pakistan\u2019s re-entry into international commercial markets after over two years, with a strong response from Middle Eastern financial institutions.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1552\" data-end=\"1701\">The Government of Pakistan views this deal as a reflection of renewed market trust in the country\u2019s macroeconomic recovery and fiscal discipline.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1703\" data-end=\"1867\">Officials noted that the successful closing of this deal also opens the door to long-term partnerships between Pakistan and Middle Eastern banking institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Finance has signed a USD 1,000 million syndicated term finance facility, backed partially by a Policy-Based Guarantee from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) under its \u201cImproved Resource Mobilization &amp; Utilisation Reform\u201d program. This major transaction is structured as a 5-year multi-tranche facility, comprising both Islamic and conventional tranches. Key Institutions Behind &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1705,1704,1706],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-business","tag-adbguarantee","tag-financefacility","tag-fiscalstability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}