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The Ba­hamas gov­ern­ment said Wednes­day that it has suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed the ex­e­cu­tion of an in­ter­na­tion­al cap­i­tal mar­kets trans­ac­tion, which in­clud­ed the is­suance of an 11-year, US$1.067 bil­lion bond to fund the re­pur­chase of US$767 mil­lion in out­stand­ing Eu­robonds.

A state­ment from the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter said that as part of the trans­ac­tion, au­thor­i­ties con­duct­ed a three-day in­vestor road­show, reach­ing over 60 ac­counts from North Amer­i­ca, Eu­rope, and the Mid­dle East.

It said par­tic­i­pants ex­pressed strong sup­port for The Ba­hamas’ cred­it fun­da­men­tals, on­go­ing fis­cal con­sol­i­da­tion, and eco­nom­ic out­look, dri­ving pos­i­tive trans­ac­tion out­comes.