Saudi Electricity wants to sell more Islamic bonds
JEDDAH, July 4 (Reuters) - State-owned Saudi Electricity 5110.SE will sell more Islamic bonds, or sukuk, to finance expansion of capacity, its chief executive said on Saturday.
"In the future there is a plan (to issue more sukuk) to fund projects," Ali Saleh al-Barrak told reporters in the Saudi Red sea port of Jeddah. He gave no details.
Last week, the firm priced a 5 billion riyals sukuk 160 basis points over the Saudi interbank rate (Saibor).
Barrak said then the new five-year issue has raised at least 10 billion riyals, but declined to say how much the company ended taking. Bankers said it would be 7 billion riyals.
Saudi Electricity is currently carrying out projects worth 75 billion riyals to be completed within three years.
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(Reporting by Asma Alsharif; writing by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Peter Blackburn)
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