April 2007

MoF’s Sumi announces plans for 40-year JGB

Japan is preparing to issue a 40-year bond towards the end of 2007, according to Chikahisa Sumi, director of the debt management policy division at the Ministry of Finance.


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Speaking at Euromoney’s Japan Fixed-Income Forum in March, Sumi said: "The super-long sector of the JGB market was being traded quite actively at the end of 2006. We won’t go ahead with a 40-year bond no matter what, but we would like to test the market."

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