KDB mulls yen funding options after Samurai

Korea Development Bank is considering a return to the Samurai bond market later this year, after selling a ¥27bn issue at the end of last week. Seung Hyun Cho, head of global funding at KDB, talked to EuroWeek about his plans — and his hopes that Japanese investors will have more appetite for KDB bonds in the future. "We are not ruling out a Samurai but we have options," said Cho. "We don’t have any obligation to go back."