Government bond trades at securities market slump www.zgm.mn
- The Ministry of Finance plans to sell government bonds at the MSE based on blockchain technology.
Mongolian government bonds worth MNT 8 billion were sold at the secondary market in the first 10 months of this year. This is only a quarter of the previous year’s trade volume.This is the third consecutive decline of Government bond trade on the domestic market following the Ministry of Finance (MoF)’s decision to halt primary market trade of the product in October 2017. However, the Ministry of Finance plans to sell government bonds at the MSE based blockchain technology. The preparation work had started in 2018. In other words, government bonds will be more accessible to citizens and investors by combining traditional and advanced methods in the coming year. Mongolia’s domestic enterprise ICT Group LLC created the blockchain platform to trade bonds. “Citizens were used to go to the banks only to buy government bonds. But they will be able to trade online by mobile phones,” says the executive director of the company. The government bonds are not simply a source of budget revenue. It is a tool to regulate fiscal policy and stabilize the national currency. Therefore, completely halting the government bond had significant negative consequences. The Ministry of Finance has explained that the 2017 decision to stop trade of the bonds was to avoid increasing government cuts in the domestic market and to prevent the government from capturing the assets of the banks.
Published Date:2019-10-21