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'Credit enhancement key for bond markets'
Financial Express Bengaluru
|December 06, 2025
NISHANT KUMAR, MD, ASIA AT PRIVATE INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT GROUP
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Singapore-based Nishant Kumar is Managing Director, Asia Investments at GuarantCo, and Head of Coverage — Asia at Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), a multilateral agency for infrastructure projects financing. He spoke to Nesil Staney on the sidelines of an event hosted by the National Stock Exchange for ecosystem-building. While PIDG finances projects, GuarantCo encourages infrastructure development in low-income countries through credit guarantees. Excerpts:
Together, we aim to build an ecosystem where bonds can be credit-enhanced and subsequently listed on NSE’s platform.
A lot of bonds are already being listed in GIFT City— especially foreign bonds. How is your focus different?
This story is from the December 06, 2025 edition of Financial Express Bengaluru.
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