TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - South Korea's Kookmin Bank
060000.KS sold 24.4 billion yen ($240 million) of Samurai bonds
on Thursday, lead manager Mizuho Securities said.
Kookmin postponed a Samurai bond deal earlier this year due
to volatile market conditions.
Details are as follows:
1. Two-year fixed-rate bond:
Issue amount: 5.1 billion yen
Coupon: 2.60 percent
Issue price: par
Maturity date: April 23, 2010
Coupon payments: April 23, Oct. 23
Payment date: April 23, 2008
Lead managers: Mizuho Securities
BNP Paribas Securities
JPMorgan Securities
Fiscal agent: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp
Ratings: A (S&P)
Aa3 (Moody's)
A+ (JCR)
Spread: LIBOR+160 basis points
2. Two-year floating-rate bond:
Issue amount: 19.3 billion yen
Coupon: 1.6 pct points above six-month yen LIBOR
Issue price: par
Maturity date: April 23, 2010
Coupon payments: April 23, Oct. 23
Payment date: April 23, 2008
Lead managers: Mizuho Securities
BNP Paribas Securities
JPMorgan Securities
Fiscal agent: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp
Ratings: A (S&P)
Aa3 (Moody's)
A+ (JCR)
Samurai bonds are yen bonds issued in Japan by non-Japanese
entities.
($1=101.76 yen)
(Reporting by Takefumi Ito and Naoyuki Katayama; Writing by Rika
Otsuka)
