Barbados has issued the world’s first government bond with a clause allowing payments to be suspended in the event of...
pandemic bond News
In late January 2015, just after the deadliest outbreak of Ebola in history, then-World Bank President Jim Yong Kim stood...
Almost exactly four years ago the World Bank announced a pioneering project, the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility, designed to develop...
A ruling last week not to wipe out holders of a World Bank financial instrument providing emergency funds to poor...
To offset the crushing costs of trying to stem a global epidemic, the World Bank and partners announced the creation...
The severity of the global coronavirus epidemic has reached levels almost certain to trigger a financial instrument sold by the...
The World Health Organization says the coronavirus isn’t yet a global pandemic. Bonds that insure against just such a catastrophe...
A World Bank bond designed to deliver funding to help the world’s poorest countries to tackle fast-spreading diseases has lost...