BRICS Bank has strong pipeline for two years: President

Shanghai July 6 (IANS) The BRICS New Development Bank has seen good results in the last two years and has a strong pipeline for the future its President K.V. Kamath said on Thursday.

The last two years have been very satisfying to us. It has built a strong foundation for the bank Xinhua news agency quoted Kamath as saying.

The bank has 23 projects at various stages of preparation for 2017 to 2018 with a total lending amount of $6 billion.

Among them five projects totaling $1.7 billion are in China. The remainder are made up of six projects in India seven in Brazil two in Russia and three in South Africa.

In 2016 the bank granted $1.5 billion in loans to seven projects. Most projects involved green energy or infrastructure Kamath said.

The bank sold its first 3 billion yuan ($437 million) yuan-denominated bonds in China in July last year to fund clean energy projects in member states.

It plans to issue rupee-denominated bonds this year and will also look for opportunities to issue bonds in Brazil and Russia Kamath said.

The bank formally opened on July 21 2015 in Shanghai.

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