MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: ADB Raises $27m in Local-currency Bond Issue to Promote Housing Lending by Otbasy Bank to Women in Rural Kazakhstan

The Asian Development Bank (ADB), a multilateral institution based in the Philippines, recently mobilized KZT 14 billion (USD 27 million) to support the Housing and Construction Savings Bank of Kazakhstan, a state-controlled institution also known as Otbasy Bank, in issuing “affordable residential mortgage loans to women borrowers in rural areas.” ADB raised the funds through a bond issue to