CBA follows Danske to carry off diversification into sterling

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CBA follows Danske to carry off diversification into sterling

Commonwealth Bank of Australia attracted over £700m of orders on Wednesday for a widely praised bond from investors starved of recent supply by the UK currency’s unattractive issuing costs. Market participants hailed the £500m December 2015 issue, CBA’s first in sterling for two years, as even more successful than Danske Bank’s appearance in the same maturity last week.

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