Korea Securities Depository (KSD) said on the 15th that funds raised through the bond and certificate of deposit (CD) electronic registration system in the first quarter of this year totaled about 146.8 trillion won.
That was up 0.6% from the same period a year earlier (145.9 trillion won). Compared with the previous quarter (169.3 trillion won), it fell 12.8%.
Bond registered issuance totaled 137.1 trillion won, up 5.8% from a year earlier. CD registered issuance came to 9.7 billion won, down 40.5% over the same period.
By type, corporate bonds were the largest at 67.8 trillion won. They were followed by special-purpose bonds at 61 trillion won, national housing bonds at 3.6 trillion won, and local public corporation bonds at 3.1 trillion won.
By share, ▲special-purpose bonds (41.6%) ▲financial company bonds (26.2%) ▲general corporate bonds (15.3%) ▲CD (6.6%) ▲SPC bonds (4.7%) ▲national housing bonds (2.4%) ▲local public corporation bonds (2.1%) ▲local government bonds (1.1%).