Malaysia-based International Islamic Liquidity Management Corporation (IILM) has issued a $490 million short-term A-1 rated sukuk of six-month tenor to fund the acquisition of a new asset.

The issuance was priced by the market at 0.6 percent and the orderbook reached $537 million.

“Today’s issuance of $490 million marks the inclusion of a new high credit quality asset, increasing the IILM’s asset pool from $2.51 billion to $3 billion, the maximum programme capacity,” Umar Oseni, the IILM CEO said.

With today’s issuance, the total outstanding IILM sukuk will be $3 billion.

(Writing by Gerard Aoun; editing by Seban Scaria)

( gerard.aoun@refinitiv.com )

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