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Welchen Beitrag kann der Privatsektor zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung leisten? Diese Frage diskutierten gestern CEOs österreichischer Unternehmen mit NGOs und UN-Repräsentanten und Repräsentantinnen.

On October 30, 2018 OKB successfully issued a USD Global Bond with a volume of USD 1bn. The 5 year bond was priced at a spread of 8bp over MidSwaps.

The country category for Nicaragua has been changed.

Currency and debt crises in Venezuela and Turkey contribute to high levels of defaults. Stable levels of new business and strong recoveries show industry is resilient.

Bangladesh. The country on the Ganges Delta offers more than cheap textiles. More and more companies from Austria want to use the business opportunities in the 160-million-inhabitant market.

Today for the first time ever Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG (OeKB) is going live with a blockchain technology based application. The new technology is used for data notarization for reports from today's government bond auction onwards.

OKB successfully issued a USD Global Bond with a volume of USD 1.5 bn on August 29.

OKB tapped its GBP 250 mn bond issue with a further volume of GBP 100 mn on August 22, 2018, bringing the total size to GBP 350 mn.

OeKB CSD was granted the licence as CSD and the licence for the provision of banking-type ancillary services according to EU Regulation ((EU) No. 909/2014 (("CSDR")) on 01.08.2018 by the Financial Market Authority (FMA).

Malaysia. With its mixture of peoples, it is considered an Asian microcosm – and exemplary with regard to stability, infrastructure and education. But can it hold this position?