NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 24: Akinwumi Adesina, President, African Development Bank Group, speaks onstage during the 2019 Concordia Annual Summit - Day 2 at Grand Hyatt New York on September 24, 2019 in New York City. Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit/AFP
The African Development Bank said it issued the world’s biggest social bond yet by selling $3 billion of notes to fight the impact of the coronavirus on the continent.
Africa’s biggest multilateral lender received $4.6 billion in bids for its Fight Covid-19 social bond, it said in a statement
```
Members Only
Login or create an account to continue
This article is available to registered BusinessDay readers. Please login if you already have an account, or create a new account to continue reading.
New to BusinessDay? Register now and start reading.
```
