{"id":1261552,"date":"2022-12-05T00:47:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T00:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/05\/finance-minister-officially-announces-domestic-debt-exchange-programme\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T00:47:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T00:47:53","slug":"finance-minister-officially-announces-domestic-debt-exchange-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/05\/finance-minister-officially-announces-domestic-debt-exchange-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister officially announces Domestic Debt Exchange programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"429\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Ken-Ofori-Atta-1-e1595508828551.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ken-Ofori-Atta-1-e1595508828551-696x429.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"429\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ken-Ofori-Atta-1-e1595508828551-696x429.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Ken-Ofori-Atta-1-e1595508828551.jpg\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>The Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta has announced the Domestic Debt Exchange programme that was introduced by the government in the 2023 budget.<\/p>\n<p>He announced this at a press conference in Accra on Sunday December 4.<\/p>\n<p>Under the programme, he said, \u201d domestic bond holders will be asked to exchange their instruments for new ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added \u201cExisting domestic bonds as of 1st December will be exchanged for a set of four new bonds maturing in 2027, 2029, and 2037.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The annual coupons on all of these bonds will be set at 0 % in 2023, 5% in 2024 and 10% from 2025 until maturity. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoupon payments will be semi annual \u2018 he stressed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"686\" height=\"960\" alt=\"\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1670194000672.jpg\" data- class=\"wp-image-273157 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"686\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1670194000672.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-273157\"  \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"693\" height=\"960\" alt=\"\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1670194005340-1.jpg\" data- class=\"wp-image-273156 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"693\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1670194005340-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-273156\"  \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>By Laud Nartey\/3news.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta has announced the Domestic Debt Exchange programme that was introduced by the government in the 2023 budget. He announced this at a press conference in Accra on Sunday December 4. Under the programme, he said, \u201d domestic bond holders will be asked to exchange their instruments for new ones.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1261553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1082,1580,3309,1418,457,1223,2488,2631],"class_list":["post-1261552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-announces","tag-debt","tag-domestic","tag-exchange","tag-finance","tag-minister","tag-officially","tag-programme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}