# The internet and gaming giant returned to global debt markets last year.

*business · news · 2026-06-08 · Reuters*

## Key points

- Tencent will issue new dollar and offshore yuan bonds as part of its $30 billion MTN program.
- The upcoming dollar bonds will have 10- and 20-year maturities; yuan bonds will have 10- and 30-year terms.
- The notes are expected to be rated A1 by Moody's, A+ by S&P, and A by Fitch.
- S&P forecasts Tencent will maintain a net cash position over the next two years.
- Tencent last issued a dollar bond in April 2021 and an offshore yuan bond in September 2023.

The internet and gaming giant returned to global debt markets last ​year, raising 9 billion yuan ($1.3 billion) with an offshore yuan bond in ⁠September, its first bond deal in four years. Its last dollar bond was a $4.15 ​billion issue in April 2021. Sign up here. The sales could be launched on Tuesday, term sheets ​showed without indicating potential deal values. Calls with global investors began on Monday, said the sources, who were not authorised to speak to media and declined to be identified. Tencent said in a ​filing that it would be issuing notes as part of its $30 billion ​global medium-term note programme and that proceeds would be used for general corporate purposes. It declined ‌to ⁠comment on details of the offering. For the dollar bond, Tencent is looking to sell 10- and 20-year notes, while the offshore yuan bond is likely to be offered in 10- and 30-year notes, according to the term sheets. Offshore yuan ​refers to yuan ​that is traded ⁠outside mainland China. The notes are expected to be rated A1 by Moody's, A+ by S&P and A by Fitch. S&P Global Ratings said in a statement ⁠that Tencent ​has low debt ratios and forecast it would ​maintain a net cash position over the next two years. ($1 = 6.7841 Chinese yuan) Reporting by Scott Murdoch, ​Yantoultra Ngui; Additional reporting by Nichiket Sunil; Editing by Thomas Derpinghaus and Edwina Gibbs Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab Scott Murdoch has been a journalist for more than two decades working for Thomson Reuters and News Corp in Australia. He has specialised in financial journalism for most of his career and covers the Australian financial services sector and superannuation. He is based in Sydney. Yantoultra Ngui is the Southeast Asia Deals Correspondent of Reuters in Singapore, covering M&A and capital market activities in a region that is fast emerging as one of the world’s biggest economies. He previously was a reporter at Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Notably, he was part of WSJ's team that covered the financial scandal at Malaysian state fund 1MDB, and that won SOPA Excellence in Breaking News award for the coverage of the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, in Malaysia in 2018. Yantoultra graduated with an MBA in Finance from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) in 2010.

**Companies:** Tencent
**Countries:** China

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