Briefs: Goldfields share placement, ANZ Vietnam sales, Liberty upsizes
Goldfields Money has a share placement to professional and sophisticated investors" underway following a trading halt on Friday morning, Proactive Investors reports. ANZ my have five buyers sin the hunt for its retail banking business in Vietnam, the Saigon Times Online. Three foreign and two local banks are in a short list of banks talking with ANZ. Liberty Financial on Friday priced its A$800 million Liberty Series 2017-1 RMBS, upsized from a launch volume of $500 million. The bond is listed by the financier as its "thirty-eighth public term securitisation" in Australia. Liberty achieved improved pricing on the key, Aaa-rated tranches compared with a similar bond placed in late 2016. The $336.0 million Class A1b notes, with a weighted average life of about 2.5 years, priced at a margin of 140 basis points over one month BBSW, ten bps tighter.