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National Australia Bank made its covered bond debut in the domestic market last week, selling A$750 million issue of ten year covered bonds, priced at 80 basis points over swap. read more

Westpac will become the first of the four major banks to test the appetite of institutional investors for Basel III compliant subordinated debt with a A$500 million issue. read more

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank (rated A-) returned to the Euromarket for the first time in four years last week, with a 125 million swiss franc issue of five year bonds. read more

For the Australian debt market, February ended with whimper.  This seems a strange outcome given that the corporate reporting season was such a strong one, with most companies reporting results t.. read more

ANZ New Zealand announced on Friday it would issue NZ$400 million of four year medium term notes at 90 basis points over the applicable swaps rate. read more

Investors rushed the first large volume local bond issue last week. Westpac launched a benchmark, five-year issue with an indicative price of 95 basis points over swap/bank bills. read more

ANZ launched a new additional tier-one capital issue, to be known as Capital Notes 2, yesterday. As with ANZ's A$1.1 billion Capital Notes 1 issue in August last year, the new issue is fully complia.. read more

With issuance since the start of the year amounting to just A$4.7 billion, January 2014 is on track to be the quietest start to a year since 2007 in the domestic corporate bond market. read more

Banking Day reported on Tuesday on a Basel III-compliant, subordinated debt issue by Bendigo and Adelaide Bank that was set to test institutional investors in the wholesale corporate bond market. Su.. read more

Rising yields may have been a factor in the reduced bond issuance observed over the course of 2013 in both international and domestic markets. International bond sales were lower over the year, at t.. read more