{"id":1038152,"date":"2026-09-24T08:05:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038152"},"modified":"2026-09-24T08:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:44:11","slug":"softbank-issues-11-1-billion-in-bonds-in-openai-financing-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/24\/softbank-issues-11-1-billion-in-bonds-in-openai-financing-push\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank issues $11.1 billion in bonds in OpenAI financing push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology investor SoftBank Group has issued a total of $11.1 billion in dollar- and euro-denominated bonds, a filing showed on Thursday, as it looks to generate cash to continue its investments in artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>SoftBank issued dollar-denominated senior notes of $1 billion at a 3-1\/2-year term, $4.5 billion at 5-1\/2 years and $4.5 billion at 7-1\/2 years, the filing showed. The bonds pay interest rates of 8.625%, 9.25% and 9.75% respectively. <\/p>\n<p>It also issued two \u20ac500 million tranches of euro-denominated senior notes with terms of four and six years, yielding 7.125% and 8%, the filing showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology investor SoftBank Group has issued a total of $11.1 billion in dollar- and euro-denominated bonds, a filing showed on Thursday, as it looks to generate cash to continue its investments in artificial intelligence. SoftBank issued dollar-denominated senior notes of $1 billion at a 3-1\/2-year term, $4.5 billion at 5-1\/2 years and $4.5 billion at 7-1\/2 years, the filing showed. The bonds pay interest rates of 8.625%, 9.25% and 9.75% respectively. It also issued two \u20ac500 million tranches of euro-denominated senior notes with terms of four and six years, yielding 7.125% and 8%, the filing showed.<\/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-1038152","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\/1038152","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=1038152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038184,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038152\/revisions\/1038184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}