{"id":1036852,"date":"2026-09-19T08:07:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036852"},"modified":"2026-09-19T08:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:43:12","slug":"softbank-adds-21-billion-to-ai-firepower-in-new-debt-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/19\/softbank-adds-21-billion-to-ai-firepower-in-new-debt-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank adds $21 billion to AI firepower in new debt deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group Corp. is closing out the week with nearly $21 billion in potential fresh borrowings as it builds out its artificial intelligence financing capacity. It\u2019s also looking to raise another $10 billion to $20 billion next week in a separate jumbo bond deal. <\/p>\n<p>The Japanese conglomerate increased its margin loan backed by shares of its chip unit Arm Holdings Plc by $5 billion to $25 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. And it recently secured an additional $450 million to an existing credit line, bringing the total to $6.5 billion, according to people familiar with that deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group Corp. is closing out the week with nearly $21 billion in potential fresh borrowings as it builds out its artificial intelligence financing capacity. It\u2019s also looking to raise another $10 billion to $20 billion next week in a separate jumbo bond deal. The Japanese conglomerate increased its margin loan backed by shares of its chip unit Arm Holdings Plc by $5 billion to $25 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. And it recently secured an additional $450 million to an existing credit line, bringing the total to $6.5 billion, according to people familiar with that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036879,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036852\/revisions\/1036879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}