Govt raises P200m more in debt

The BoB, as government’s banker, conducts monthly auctions of treasury bills as well as bonds to primary dealers who are exclusively banks. At the auctions, the dealers compete to lend to the government by offering the yields they are seeking, with the BoB deciding the 'stop-out' yield or the level of interest it is willing to pay the dealers on particular securities on offer.

The Bank of Botswana (BoB) floated two treasury bills with maturities of three and six months, receiving bids of P1.05 billion on December 30.