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After the rush of issuance in January, the domestic corporate bond market has settled into a fairly laid back February. At the halfway mark the issuance total is just A$3.6 billion. read more

The first week of February was more notable for what didn't happen rather than what did in the debt capital market. Issuance in the domestic wholesale corporate bond market slowed to a trickle, especi.. read more

Is the market for listed Additional Tier 1 capital notes (hybrids) issued by the banks suffering from indigestion? read more

As predicted in Banking Day last week, investors in bank hybrid notes did not respond well to the announcement of ANZ's Capital Notes 3 issue. The investors most exposed are those holding CBA's PERLS.. read more

National Australia Bank has just learned to its chagrin not to flag its moves to the market too far ahead. read more

The way minimum bank capital is calculated may be tweaked so comprehensively by the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision that the creation of a standardised third option is a distinct possibility... read more

The first two full weeks of January are typically busy with the major Australian banks and Macquarie raising a significant volume of funds in international bond markets. read more

While the Australian banks have been busy in international bond markets since the start of the year, the domestic corporate bond market has been almost exclusively the domain of supranational and fore.. read more

The last week of November 2014 was not notable for any great volume of issuance in the domestic corporate bond market. A lack of supply appears to have facilitated the upsizing of the deals that did c.. read more

In an update on the US corporate bond market, Fitch reported that the US$5.1 trillion market was now 41 per cent larger than in 2009. Most of the US$1.5 trillion increase in the value of bonds outstan.. read more