{"id":26629,"date":"2026-09-25T10:40:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=26629"},"modified":"2026-09-25T10:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:40:40","slug":"softbank-raises-11-1-billion-through-bonds-amid-ai-investment-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2026\/09\/25\/softbank-raises-11-1-billion-through-bonds-amid-ai-investment-push\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank Raises $11.1 Billion Through Bonds Amid AI Investment Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"read\">SoftBank Group has issued dollar- and euro-denominated bonds worth a combined $11.1 billion as it seeks funding to support its continued investment in artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">An offering document showed on Thursday that the group issued $1 billion of 3.5-year senior dollar notes, $4.5 billion of 5.5-year notes and $4.5 billion of 7.5-year notes, with yields of 8.625%, 9.25% and 9.75%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">SoftBank also issued two \u20ac500 million tranches with maturities of four and six years, yielding 7.125% and 8%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">The group plans to use the proceeds to help finance the final $10 billion tranche of its $30 billion follow-on investment in OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT. Upon completion, SoftBank\u2019s cumulative investment in OpenAI is expected to reach $64.6 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group has issued dollar- and euro-denominated bonds worth a combined $11.1 billion as it seeks funding to support its continued investment in artificial intelligence. An offering document showed on Thursday that the group issued $1 billion of 3.5-year senior dollar notes, $4.5 billion of 5.5-year notes and $4.5 billion of 7.5-year notes, with yields [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26633,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26629\/revisions\/26633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}