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"Osaka University Bond for Creating a Society where Each Member Leads a Meaningful and Fulfilling Life" wins Best Deal of 2022 in the Agency Bonds Division of the Capital Eye Awards
"Osaka University Bond for Creating a Society where Each Member Leads a Meaningful and Fulfilling Life" (Public University Corporation Osaka University Bond #1), issued in April 2022, won Best Deal of 2022 in the Zaito Agency Bonds Division of the Capital Eye Awards.
Zaito agency: A government financial institution that issues debt securities using funding from the "Fiscal Investment and Loan Program (FILP)" sponsored by the Ministry of Finance (MoF). Zaito agency bonds are also known as FLIP agency bonds.
Capital Eye Ltd. recognizes the year’s best and most reputable capital market transactions with the Capital Eye Awards based on responses to their surveys of securities companies and institutional investors.
"Osaka University Bond for Creating a Society where Each Member Leads a Meaningful and Fulfilling Life" was evaluated by Capital Eye Ltd. in the following points:
- OU Social Creation Bonds are the second university bonds in Japan, OU’s first bonds, and the first sustainability bonds in Zaito agency bonds.
- OU appeals that it put much effort into industry-university collaboration through active IR activities, attracting investment of some 240 billion yen from 35 investors, a high number for 40-year bonds.
- OU received investment intentions from 24 institutional investors, expanding the markets for both SDG bonds and university bonds.
Osaka University Bond for Creating a Society where Each Member Leads a Meaningful and Fulfilling Life
This is the second issuance of university bonds at a national university corporation after The University of Tokyo and the first issuance of sustainability bonds at a university in Japan. (Issue date: April 28, 2022, Maturity period: 40 years, Issue Amount: 30 billion JPY)
Osaka University aims to become an opinion leader to create a society where each member leads a meaningful and fulfilling life. The university will achieve this goal through co-creation with various stakeholders beyond differences in gender and generation from a stage of identifying challenges by allocating funding raised from investors to social projects and green projects.