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Both Macquarie Group and ANZ last week issued in the US s144A market, raising US$500 million each.  ANZ National, the New Zealand offshoot of ANZ, raised twice as much. read more

Bank of New Zealand (rated AA) was active both offshore and in the domestic market. BNZ added CHF100 million to its February 2015 line, taking outstandings to CHF300 million. The top-up was priced a.. read more

The Liberal and National party coalition's proposal to consider issuing 30 year government bonds is a sensible one that could go a long way towards addressing one of the major shortcomings of Australi.. read more

Despite all the criticism levelled at the start of last week at the European bank stress tests, a fair amount of tension seems to have been removed from financial markets. While the tests themselves.. read more

Westpac was the only issuer of note in international bond markets last week, leaving aside a A$50 million top-up by ANZ to its December 2013 EMTN. read more

PGG Wrightson Finance will try again for approval from bondholders for a one-year extension on NZ$100 million of bonds. read more

Export Development Canada (rated AAA) made its debut in the domestic market last week, with a A$650 million, five-year bond issue priced at a spread of 70 basis points over Commonwealth government b.. read more

In what seems to be a rare event, another Bluestone Group subprime and non-conforming RMBS issue had three classes of notes upgraded and one affirmed. read more

Standard & Poor's released its arrears data on mortgage-backed securities to the end of May 2010, which not surprisingly, shows arrears of more than 30 days on prime RMBS eased slightly over the.. read more

AGL Energy (rated BBB) advised the ASX on Friday morning that it had priced a US$300 million bond issue in the traditional private placement market in the US. The issue comprised two tranches: US$16.. read more