Capital Markets

Private Placements

The GMTN Program allows ADB to raise funds quickly in a highly opportunistic manner through private placement transactions.

These can be structured to meet the exact requirements of investors in terms of maturity and coupon.

They can be targeted at retail as well as institutional investors, bear fixed or foreign exchange/interest rate-linked coupon, and can include call options and other features required by investors.

Private placement products issued by ADB have included some of the following features:

• Foreign exchange linked: Dual Currency Note, Reverse Dual Currency Note, Power Reverse Dual Currency Note, Chooser Power Reverse Dual Currency Note, Digital Coupon Note, Target Redemption Note
• Interest Rate Linked: Inverse Rate Floater, CMS-Indexed Note, Callable Floating Rate Note
• Others: Fixed Rate Note, Zero Coupon Callable Note, Uridashi (Straight or Deep Discount), Samurai (structured)

• GMTN Prospectus [ PDF: 624kb | 62 pages ]