Australia
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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. -
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.
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Citi has appointed Simon Marrison to the newly created position of director on the general industrials and sponsors team in Australia.
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UBS, HSBC make ECM hires — JP Morgan adds Macquarie veteran to IB team — DCM changes at Natixis and StanChart — ABN Amro beefs up transportation and logistics biz — Kim joins HSBC Korea
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JP Morgan has hired lifetime Macquarie Capital banker Jim Miller as vice-chairman of investment banking in Australia, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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A flurry of changes have taken place in Credit Suisse’s Asia Pacific operations.
