NewsUAE second retail T-Sukuk draws AED285 million in subscription orders
Demand for the finance ministry's five-year sovereign retail sukuk reached about 5.7 times its AED50 million target issuance.
Event / data period: 2026-10-02
Published: · Updated:
IllustrationThe UAE Ministry of Finance said its second five-year sovereign retail T-Sukuk began trading on Nasdaq Dubai on October 2. During the September 23–28 subscription period, orders totalled AED285 million, about 5.7 times the AED50 million target issuance. The figure measures investor orders, not the amount ultimately sold.
Retail investors applying for AED10,000 or less accounted for 75% of applications, while UAE nationals represented 69% of total demand. Women accounted for 17% of invested capital, and nearly half of subscribers had also invested in the first tranche. The ministry said the instrument has a five-year tenor, semi-annual profit distributions and a minimum investment of AED1,000.
Data
Subscription demand and investor composition
Results for the second retail T-Sukuk, released by the Ministry of Finance on October 2.
- Subscription orders
- 285 million AED
- 2026-09-23 — 2026-09-28 · Observed
- Target issuance size
- 50 million AED
- 2026-09-23 — 2026-09-28 · Target
- Application share from investors applying for AED10,000 or less
- 75 percent
- 2026-09-23 — 2026-09-28 · Observed
- UAE nationals' share of total demand
- 69 percent
- 2026-09-23 — 2026-09-28 · Observed
- Women's share of invested capital
- 17 percent
- 2026-09-23 — 2026-09-28 · Observed
Methodology
Amounts are subscription orders during the application window; AED285 million of demand is compared with the AED50 million target issuance. Application share, nationality share and women's share of invested capital use different denominators. The source dates the window September 23–28, 2026.
Updated:
Subjects and places
Subject proposals
- economy, business and financeSuggested
- Preserved editorial category/topic; broad candidate onlymof.gov.ae ↗
Geographic references
Only source-provided geographic references are shown. Opening an external map is optional. Optional story maps use OpenStreetMap. Opening a map sends your IP address and this site’s address to the map provider; location data remains readable as text without loading the map.
- United Arab Emirates · United Arab Emirates · Place role: Coverage · Place type: Country or area · Location precision: RegionalEvidence
- Explicit preserved editorial country/region; no city or national centroid inferredmof.gov.ae ↗
- Dubai · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Place role: Place mentioned by source · Place type: City · Location precision: Approximate
55.28, 25.252222 (longitude, latitude)
EvidenceOpen this point in OpenStreetMap ↗- Explicit article mention: Dubai. Country agrees with the preserved article scope. Gazetteer reference only; event location is unconfirmed.mof.gov.ae ↗ungegn.un.org ↗ungegn-api.azurewebsites.net ↗