Temasek Financial (I) Limited (“TFin-I”) has priced €750 million 3.25% Guaranteed Notes due 2027 and €750 million 3.50% Guaranteed Notes due 2033 (the “T2027-EUR Temasek Bond” and the “T2033-EUR Temasek Bond”, respectively, and collectively, the “T2027-EUR and T2033-EUR Temasek Bonds”).

Unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed by Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited (“Temasek”), the T2027-EUR and T2033-EUR Temasek Bonds are the 26th and 27th bond issues under TFin-I’s US$25 billion Guaranteed Global Medium Term Note Programme (the “Programme”). 

The T2027-EUR Temasek Bond was priced at a spread of 25 bps over the 4-year benchmark EUR Mid-swap. Investors will be paid annually, at a coupon rate of 3.25% per annum. The T2027-EUR Temasek Bond was issued at 99.96% to give a yield to maturity of 3.26% per annum.

The T2033-EUR Temasek Bond was priced at a spread of 65 bps over the 10-year benchmark EUR Mid-swap. Investors will be paid annually, at a coupon rate of 3.50% per annum. The T2033-EUR Temasek Bond was issued at 99.65% to give a yield to maturity of 3.54% per annum.

There was strong interest in the bonds from high-quality institutional, accredited and/or other specified investors .

Temasek has been assigned an overall corporate credit rating of “Aaa” by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) and “AAA” by S&P Global Ratings, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“S&P”), and the T2027-EUR and T2033-EUR Temasek Bonds are likewise rated Aaa by Moody’s and AAA by S&P. 

TFin-I intends to provide the net proceeds from the issuance of the T2027-EUR and T2033-EUR Temasek Bonds to Temasek and its investment holding companies to fund their ordinary course of business.

The offering is scheduled to close on 15 February 2023.

The T2027-EUR and T2033-EUR Temasek Bonds are expected to be listed on the Official List of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (the “SGX-ST”) on 16 February 2023. The SGX-ST assumes no responsibility for the correctness of any of the statements made or opinions expressed or reports contained herein. Admission to the Official List of the SGX-ST and listing and quotation of the T2027-EUR and T2033-EUR Temasek Bonds on the SGX-ST are not to be taken as an indication of the merits of TFin-I, Temasek, their respective subsidiary companies (if any), their respective associated companies (if any), the Programme, or the T2027-EUR and T2033-EUR Temasek Bonds.

The T2027-EUR and T2033-EUR Temasek Bonds were offered outside the United States only to non-U.S. persons under Regulation S of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

The Joint Lead Managers and Bookrunners were Barclays, HSBC, JP Morgan and Société Générale.

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References to “EUR” or “€” are to euros, the official currency of certain European Union member countries.

References to “US$” are to U.S. dollars, the lawful currency of the United States.

This release is not an offer of securities for sale in the United States. The securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended. No portion of the proposed offering is intended to be registered in the United States, and no public offering is intended to be conducted in the United States.

In the European Economic Area (the “EEA”), this announcement is only directed at persons who are “qualified investors” within the meaning of Article 2(e) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (as amended, the “Prospectus Regulation”).

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