SoftBank issues $11.1 billion in bonds in OpenAI financing push

FILE PHOTO: Softbank Group’s logo at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, September 1, 2026.

FILE PHOTO: Softbank Group’s logo at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, September 1, 2026.(REUTERS/Manami Yamada/File Photo)


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TOKYO, Sept 24 — Technology investor SoftBank Group ​has issued a total of $11.1 billion in dollar- and euro-denominated bonds, ‌a filing showed on Thursday, as it ⁠looks to generate ​cash to continue ⁠its investments in artificial intelligence.

SoftBank ‌issued dollar-denominated ‌senior notes of $1 billion at a ⁠3-1/2-year term, $4.5 ⁠billion at 5-1/2 years and $4.5 billion at 7-1/2 years, the filing showed. The bonds pay interest rates of 8.625%, 9.25% and 9.75% ‌respectively.

It also issued two €500 ​million tranches of euro-denominated senior notes with terms of four and six years, yielding 7.125% and 8%, the filing showed.

The bonds will be used to fund the ​final $10-billion tranche of $30 billion SoftBank ‌committed to ‌investing ⁠in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, taking its total investment to $64.6 billion when complete.

This month it issued 1 trillion yen ($6.32 billion) ‌in corporate bonds aimed ​at retail investors.

($1=158.2500 ‌yen)

(Reporting by ⁠Anton ​Bridge; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman and Clarence ​Fernandez)

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