The government of Tunisia is preparing its first ever issuance of a sukuk with the Tunisian stock exchange, Bourse de Tunis, and Nasdaq Dubai, according to a statement issued by Nasdaq Dubai on Wednesday.
Preparation work will consider commercial, legal and regulatory issues, including sharia-compliance aspects, ahead of potential sukuk issues aimed at both domestic and international investors.
Tunisia needs about $2.85 billion in external funding in 2017 and plans to issue a sukuk, or Islamic bond, of $500 million to cover its budget deficit, the then finance minister Lamia Zribi told Reuters in January.
It issued a €850 million bond with a seven-year maturity in February.
Reuters
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