Briefs: ANZ's new green bond, La Trobe launches RMBS, FlexiGroup tests market, and more 28 May 2015 4:25PM Banking Day staff Briefs, ANZ has priced its inaugural green bond issue, with the A$600 million five-year fixed-rate bond paying a semi-annual coupon of 3.25 per cent. The bond is "green" because the proceeds will be used to finance low carbon industries and technologies. The portfolio includes wind and solar power projects and Green Star rated commercial property. In December, National Australia Bank raised $300 million through its inaugural green bond issue, which offered a fixed coupon of four per cent for a seven-year term. La Trobe Financial Services yesterday launched a securitisation of its own non-conforming residential mortgages. The transaction, to be known as the La Trobe Financial Capital Markets Trust 2015-1, will seek to raise almost A$250 million in funding. The top two classes of notes, totalling $162.5 million and $44.5 million respectively, were given preliminary ratings of AAA by both Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings, based on the inherent support from the five lower ranked classes of notes and other aspects of the structure. FlexiGroup has mandated CBA and NAB to arrange a series of asset-backed securities debt investor meetings in Australia in the week beginning 1 June, which will be its second asset-backed deal this year. "A transaction under the Flexi ABS Trust programme denominated in Australian dollars may follow, subject to market conditions," according to a banker associated with the deal. In April 2015 FlexiGroup completed a A$210 million ABS issue. UK payments technology firm Tuxedo Money Solutions is targeting Australia as part of an aggressive expansion beyond its home market. Describing Australia as a "key market for the prepaid sector, particularly in the travel market," Tuxedo has hired Duncan Currie, who previously managed Visa's prepaid product suite for Australasia. Currie will have a similar role for Tuxedo, looking to build on the firm's expertise in travel currency cards and to capitalise on the launch of its payment platform in the region last year. Taxi-booking and payment software company Ingogo has completed a $12 million fundraising round, which included the second largest ever raising through a crowd equity platform, the AFR has reported. More than a third of the funding round, $4.2 million, was committed through the Artesian-backed crowd-equity platform VentureCrowd.