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Bank of Queensland returned to the domestic market with another government-guaranteed bond issue. The bank raised A$1.1 billion, via an issue of four-year floating rate notes, on Wednesday. The notes.. read more

World Bank added NZ$175 million to its December 2014 global kauri last week, priced at 25 basis points over New Zealand government bonds and about 12 bps over swap. The top-up took outstandings to NZ$.. read more

The sale of mortgage-backed securities in 2009 is down by 70 per cent from the salad days of 2006 and 2007, when annual volumes reached $40 billion. read more

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank became only the second prime RMBS issuer to come to the market this year without AOFM as a cornerstone investor. And despite the plain vanilla structure of its offering, via.. read more

A further reminder of the change in the investor pool for RMBS came from Standard & Poor's with the release on Thursday of its Inside ABCP report for September 2009. S&P continues to observe t.. read more

Macquarie Bank has securitised more than A$240 million of mortgages originated by its relationship banking division. The mortgages are fully verified and predominately made to high net worth individua.. read more

Six bond deals listed or priced last week, making it the busiest, in terms of the number of issues, though not in the value of debt sold, for the month. read more

Offshore debt issuance was somewhat more subdued last week. Westpac raised Swiss francs in the Euromarket in two tranches, the Australian branch of Rabobank raised New Zealand dollars in the Euromarke.. read more

There has been talk in the market for a little while now that Bendigo and Adelaide Bank would be the next to follow ME Bank with a prime non-AOFM backed RMBS issue. Standard & Poor's on Friday rel.. read more

In New Zealand, Dunedin City Treasury (rated AA-) raised NZ$75 million for five years at 92 basis points over New Zealand Government bonds. read more