09 Aug 2011
(MENAFN) Qatar’s Central Bank’s Governor, Abdullah Bin Saud Al Thani, said that in order to provide banks with cash to invest before borrowing would surge for the 2022 football World Cup; the central bank would sell USD1 billion in treasury bills, reported Gulf News.
Al Thani added that in 2011, around USD2.7 billion of T-Bills were issued, furthermore, as credit growth went down, the country planned to sell USD2 billion in T-Bills on a monthly basis since May in order to manage liquidity.
He also said that over the next ten years, Qatar would spend around USD88 billion in infrastructure works for the 2022 football World Cup which would be held in the country.
It is worth noting that the tranche Qatar would provide for lenders will be the fourth issuance in 2011 and will include three-month T-Bills, half of them Sharia-compliant.
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