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A record KSh 103.38 billion Treasury bond falls due today just as the government settles last week’s heavily subscribed infrastructure bond reopenings, setting up a major recycling of liquidity as money released through Kenya’s biggest single-day domestic bond maturity in available CBK data potentially flows straight back into longer-dated government debt.
- FXD1/2016/010, a 10-year Treasury bond carrying a 15.039% coupon, matures on August 17 after swelling far beyond its original size through repeated reopenings.
- The bond began with KSh 18.31 billion in 2016, but CBK maturity records show a further KSh 85.07 billion was added through subsequent sales, meaning about 82% of the amount being redeemed today was accumulated after the original issuance.
- Treasury is paying out KSh 103.38 billion in principal while simultaneously absorbing fresh cash through the IFB settlement, allowing part of the redemption proceeds to be recycled immediately into longer-dated securities.
The biggest additions came during the high-rate borrowing cycle of 2023 and 2024. CBK added KSh 16.20 billion in July 2023 at a redemption yield of 16.328%, followed by another KSh 32.19 billion tranche at the same yield. A further KSh 7.02 billion and KSh 0.79 billion were added later in 2023 at 17.9266%, before another KSh 28.88 billion was added in October 2024 at 16.9837%.
The fixed coupon remained 15.039% throughout, but the market yield moved sharply above it as domestic financing conditions tightened. By late 2023 investors were demanding close to 18% on the bond. By early 2026, that cycle had reversed, with the bond valued at yields near 8% during subsequent switch operations.
The maturity also lands on the same day investors settle three reopened infrastructure bonds, IFB1/2019/016, IFB1/2021/018 and IFB1/2021/021, offered for KSh 150 billion last week. The bonds attracted record demand, reinforcing the depth of liquidity still chasing government paper.
That creates an unusual two-way flow. Treasury is paying out KSh 103.38 billion in principal while simultaneously absorbing fresh cash through the IFB settlement, allowing part of the redemption proceeds to be recycled immediately into longer-dated securities.
CBK had already moved to reduce the August maturity wall through liability-management operations. In January, investors were offered a switch from FXD1/2016/010 into debt maturing in 2037, extending part of the obligation by more than a decade.
Even after those operations, the amount falling due today remains the largest single-day domestic bond maturity in CBK data available since 2020, surpassing the KSh 96.72 billion maturity recorded on August 18, 2025.