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International law firm Clifford Chance has advised the European Investment Bank (EIB) on the issuance of its first GBP-denominated natively digital bond, which priced today.
The transaction will be the EIB's first digital bond to be issued using a combination of private and public blockchains and its second digitally native bond issuance under Luxembourg law following the EUR100 million fixed rate bond issued on 29 November 2022. Once issued on 2 February 2023, the GBP 50 million, two-year bond, which bears a floating rate of interest, will be registered on a private blockchain operated and accessed via the HSBC Orion Platform, while a public blockchain mirror record provides increased transparency on an anonymised basis. The bond is expected to be admitted to the...
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