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Both Standard & Poor's and Moody's released their fourth quarter 2009 reviews of the Australian asset-backed securities market last week.  The Australian ABS sector has revived, with reboundi.. read more

Two months into 2010 and issuance in the domestic corporate bond market is slightly ahead of where it was at the end of February 2009. Year-to-date issuance totals A$15.6 billion (taking the rolling 1.. read more

Issuance in the mortgage-backed securities market is certainly well ahead of where it was this time last year, though the number remains small with the year-to-date total now at A$2.5 million. Last ye.. read more

Further to comments made last week, the upcoming NZ$350 million, five-year, retail bond issue will be secured by a charge over the Council's rate revenue. This should result in the bonds issued by the.. read more

It was certainly a week for high quality bond issuance, with AOFM, QTC, TCorp and TCV all active. read more

National Australia Bank and its subsidiary, Bank of New Zealand, raised funds in the US s144A market and the Euromarket, respectively. nab raised US$1.25 billion for five years at 140 basis points ove.. read more

With the release of its interim results last week, Asciano reminded investors that it has some A$2.25 billion of debt to roll over by 2012 and outlined plans to sell bonds to finance half this amount. read more

There was some excitement last week when the news broke that BHP Billiton will be meeting with local debt investors over the next few weeks - and it will be doing so without any bankers involved. read more

In its report entitled "Financial Guaranty Insurance Industry: 2009 Review and 2010 Outlook", Moody's Investors Service notes that the outlook is negative for the battered financial guarantor industry.. read more

Assured Guarantee and FSA were the last of the credit wrappers to be rated by Fitch. It had already ceased rating Ambac Assurance Corp., MBIA Insurance Corporation, Syncora Guarantee (previously known.. read more