Investor relations

NIB's borrowing strategy is designed to meet demands from investors for high-quality assets and at the same time to offer flexibility. NIB seeks to be a reliable partner offering value and diversification to investors by providing them with a wide range of bonds in different sizes, currencies, maturities and structures.

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One-pager for investors: NIB in brief, Chinese
One-pager for investors: NIB in brief, English
One-pager for investors: NIB in brief, German
One-pager for investors: NIB in brief, Japanese
Moody's Credit Opinion December 2011 (52 kB)
Moody's Credit Analysis (850 kB)
Standard & Poor's rating report (259 kB) 
Financial policies (717 kB) 
Liquidity policy (74 kB)  
Buyback policy (162 kB)
Rating
Key data
Financial reports
Annual Report, Treasury

International

• NIB's multilateral status and credit rating make NIB a strong credit in any currency. The Bank has outstanding debt in some 20 currencies.
• To broaden its funding base, NIB studies emerging and developing markets and looks for opportunities for new bond issues.

AAA/Aaa-rated

• NIB's bonds enjoy the highest possible credit rating, AAA/Aaa, with the leading rating agencies Standard & Poor's and Moody's. NIB aims at providing the best quality in the industry, striving to maintain this rating, which is essential for the Bank.

Investor-oriented

• To maintain a dialogue with investors and to find out the investors' requirements and preferences, NIB actively arranges one-to-one meetings and carries out investor presentations.
• For further information, please contact our Funding and Investor Relations team.

Flexible and innovative

• NIB's Asset Liability Management methods and risk management tools enable the Bank to issue in different amounts and currencies, and with different maturities and structures.
• Issues are mainly documented under existing debt programmes, but, when required, issues can also be documented with stand-alone documentation.

Efficient

• NIB has a small, efficient and dedicated Funding and Investor Relations team that enables it to respond quickly to funding proposals from both investors and arrangers. This also secures the timely and smooth execution of all deals.

Issuing global benchmark bonds

• NIB issues one to two SEC-registered global benchmark bonds every year depending on market conditions and funding needs.
• The purpose of the benchmark issuance strategy is to further diversify globally NIB's investor base. NIB documents the issues in a global format to enable as many investors as possible to invest in them. In line with its policy, NIB does not make any taps on its benchmark issues.

Having different debt programmes

• NIB is a flexible issuer. Issues can be documented under the following programmes or with stand-alone documentation:
  - EMTN multi-currency EUR 15 billion
  - US MTN / Global multi-currency USD 20 billion
  - MTN AUD/NZD 5 billion

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