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Conclusion The strategic importance of SOEs demands a proactive and innovative approach to their financial management. By embracing advanced commodity hedging strategies, diversifying funding sources, mitigating currency risks, and leveraging securitization for capital expenditure, SOEs can not only enhance their own individual financial health but also contribute significantly to the broader economic stability and growth of their respective nations. The sophisticated financial tools that we have highlighted here offer pathways to optimize costs, manage risks, and secure critical investments, with the objective to support SOEs in fulfilling their mandates more effectively and sustainably. These outcomes can also contribute to improve the credit ratings of the sovereign itself. Sources: World Bank Group. “State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in Oman: Review of SOE Governance Practices”. World Bank Group, November 2024. Bower, Uwe. “State-Owned Enterprises in Emerging Europe: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”. IMF Working Paper no WP/17/221. International Monetary Fund, October 2017. Citi Perspectives for the Public Sector 35