REQUIREMENTS

CRITERIA

1. Incorporation

  • Issuer must be duly incorporated under the laws of Rwanda or any other recognized law.
  • A government borrowing authority.
  • A public authority ( e.g. local government)

 

2. Identity of persons     responsible for     Information disclosed: Directors, Senior Management, Advisers, Auditors, and Bankers.

 

  • Names,
  •  Address (residential)
  •  Roles of each director and senior manager
  •  Declarations by directors, sponsors
  •  Consents by all professionals whose reports have been used in the disclosure document.

3. Information on the issuers

  • Incorporation
  • Information
  • Principal activities

4. Share Capital and Assets
 

  • Authorized issued and fully paid up capital of Rwf 500 million
  • Net assets of Rwf 1 (one) billion

5. Statistics on the Offer/Issue

  • Amount of debt to be issued
  • Features of the bond
  • Purpose of the issue and intended application of the proceeds

6. Track  record and profitability

  • Adequate track record, at least two financial years of positive profits.

7. Transferability

  •  Fully negotiable and freely transferable.

8. Minimum size of a bond issue

  • Rwf 550 million
9. Disclosures in the Audited Annual  reports and accounts and the Information Memorandum
  • 3 years annual reports and accounts.
  • Internationally acceptable accounting standards.

10. Status of the business

  • Recent business trends, production, costs, prices etc

11. Major shareholders and related party transactions

  • Names and amount of shares held by each

12. Working capital

  •  sufficient

13. Loan subordination

  • Whether the loan is subordinated to other debts of the issuer already contracted or to be contracted

14. Convertible debt

  • Where the debt is convertible – information concerning nature of shares offered, rate of conversion and the rights of the bond holders

15. Taxation

  • Tax implication on income to the bondholders