Uzbekistan’s oldest lender, state-owned SQB, issued its inaugural Eurobond months after the sovereign made its international market debut. Bonds & Loans speaks to Odilbek Isakov, the Deputy Finance Minister of Uzbekistan, and Aziz Voitov, the Chairman of SQB, about the challenges of fast-tracking the development of debt capital markets in frontier economies – where issuers are queuing up to take advantage of low interest rates and strong liquidity, and the lender’s potential privatisation.
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