NTMA's long-date bond auction raises €5.23bn

The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) has announced today’s exchange offer and sale of new bonds attracted investor committment of a total of €5.23bn into longer-dated bonds maturing in 2017 and 2020.

Of this, some €4.19bn was new money for the purchase of the two longer-term bonds on offer - a new five-year bond maturing in October 2017 and an existing bond maturing in October 2020.