Australia
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National Australia Bank found demand for €2bn of new senior notes on Wednesday, at the same time as offering to buy back €750m of old debt. -
Fitch has assigned an AAA rating to the debut covered bond programme of ING Bank in Australia (INGBA).
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Bank of China Macau branch is providing a $700m loan to back Chinese alternative asset management firm CDH Investment’s acquisition of Sirtex Medical, according to a source close to the situation.
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Citi has made a handful of senior level changes to its loans and acquisition finance team in Asia Pacific, according to three internal memos seen by GlobalCapital Asia.
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Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) took advantage of a 40bp spread differential to senior dollar funding this week to issue its first dollar covered bond in three years.
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Toyota’s Australian finance arm ended a 14 year hiatus from issuing bonds in sterling this week when it sold the first sterling corporate bond of the second half of 2018. The breadth of the sterling investor community was evident in the order book, but the depth was not.
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Car manufacturer Toyota’s Australian finance arm ended a 14 year hiatus from issuing bonds in sterling when it sold the first sterling corporate bond of the second half of 2018. The return of such an issuer will help fuel optimism that issuance in the currency in the second half of the year may help to redress the balance after one of the lowest volumes of first half issuance in the last decade.
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Health and Happiness International Holdings, previously known as Biostime International Holdings, is seeking an up to $350m loan through Goldman Sachs.
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Australian insurer QBE has bought back around $100m of green bonds, a rare event for the nascent market.
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Investment company AllianceBernstein says it is focused on the development of the AT1 market beyond the large European banks, as it launched a new financials fund.
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Macquarie Group has signed a £2bn loan that features green tranches, as the seemingly inexorable rise of the product continues unabated.
