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The highlight of the debt capital market last week was AMP Bank's pricing of its prime RMBS issue via Progress 2010-1 Trust. Investor demand was such that the deal was upsized to A$1.0 billion from A$.. read more

Moody's lowered its senior debt and deposit ratings on BNP Paribas and also its bank financial strength rating by one notch to 'Aa2' and 'B-', respectively. These changes flowed through to all other l.. read more

The Australian Financial Centre Forum, established by the Commonwealth government in September 2008, delivered its report to the government Friday week ago. In accordance with the forum's brief, the r.. read more

In its latest review of Australian ABS entitled "Australian Auto and Equipment Lease ABS: 2009 Performance Update", Moody's says the overall performance of the sector has been positive. The credit rat.. read more

As is typical at the start of a new year, investors, issuers and intermediaries in the bond market turn their thoughts to likely issuance volume and the composition of that issuance over the coming ye.. read more

All this points to promising opportunities for industrial and resources companies in Australia to exploit the funding option that the domestic bond market provides. read more

In the domestic market, Inter-American Development Bank and Asian Development Bank were the largest issuers, while it was the latter and Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank that opened the only new lines -.. read more

Pressure remains on the Australian dollar/US dollar basis swap in early 2010. At the end of only the second week of the year, the four major banks have issued the equivalent of A$8.4 billion of bonds,.. read more

AMP Bank, via Progress 2010-1 Trust, will issue A$543 million of prime RMBS this week. Pricing of the issue is scheduled for Friday. read more

At the same time, S&P released its Australian RMBS arrears statistics for October 2009 and reported a slight rise in arrears of more than 30 days to 1.27 per cent of outstanding prime RMBS, up fro.. read more