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Sharon Lee

Sharon Lee

Mike Lee's wife

Jul 23, 2026

3:55
So was there a moment when you realized that parenting Lucas wasn't something that would end when he turned 18? And how did that make you feel?
4:03
Well, Lucas was diagnosed before he turned three.
4:06
He wasn't talking.
4:08
He wasn't walking.
4:09
He wasn't engaging with us the way you would expect a toddler to do so at that stage of their lives.
4:15
So, you know, at that time, I guess, A, it was a bit of a shock.
4:19
And all our energies were centered around Lucas.

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17:15
right?
TomHOST
12:13
Do you want to sort of shed a bit of light on those, Sharon?
12:15
Yeah, happy to take that.
12:17
So we've done, I'll very quickly cover the three kind of signature deals we did in the Central Asia region, two of which are cross-site sovereign, one is in kind of gold mine.
12:27
The two actually, the quotes for the sovereign are also very different.
12:30
One is in USD and one is in Uzbekistan, which is a local currency in Uzbekistan.
12:35
So the first one we did was the kind of a short-term bridge to LPN issue for the Khozai sovereign, a state-owned entity, to fund the kind of fundamental agriculture program of the country.
12:47
So what we were getting, what we got was slow double digit, which is actually a significant uptick to the sovereign curve, which used to take the same duration, which was kind of in the mid-7a range.
TomHOST
14:59
And then if we're doing those deals in USD, what is access to currency markets like in the region? Are they highly liquid? Can borrowers get access to dollars?

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