Kampala — THE week Stanbic Bank announced that a sh30b bond issue had sold out to investors. In addition the PTA Bank is currently looking to raise sh40b from the markets. A bond is an instrument which allows companies or governments to borrow from the public.
Both bonds will trade on the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE), meaning investors who might have bought the bonds and cannot hold them to maturity can sell them to other investors.
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