Westpac top stories

• IOC nabs ideal window for market return

  

  A rally in the debt market and Indian Oil Corp’s (IOC) scarcity value buoyed the company’s return to dollar bond investors for the first time since 2013, allowing it to add a chunky $900m to its coffers.

  • 11 Jan 2019

• Westpac hits dollars and euros covered bonds

  Westpac issued the first dollar covered bond of the year this week, while its New Zealand subsidiary hit the euro market following the demand unearthed by an earlier deal from ANZ New Zealand.

  • 10 Jan 2019

• Australasian banks crank up Swissie market

  Better late than never. After a sluggish start to the year, international activity in the Swiss franc market finally began in mid-week when Westpac priced the first Australian covered bond in Swissies since a Sfr200m National Australia Bank (NAB) trade in January 2014.

  • 10 Jan 2019

• NAB finds certainty in dollars, Westpac hits euros

  National Australia Bank (NAB) was looking for execution certainty when heading to the dollar market to sell a pair of senior unsecured and covered bonds on Monday. But with credit conditions improving on Tuesday, Westpac shaved a few basis points off the cost of funding compared with its peer by opting for euros in covered and senior formats.

  • 27 Nov 2018

• Aussie rules out bail-in senior as part of TLAC regime

  The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has taken a very different approach from the rest of the world with its total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) rules, proposing that banks meet these new capital requirements with tier two rather than any new form of bail-inable senior debt.

  • 08 Nov 2018

• Aussie issuer mulls euro tranche for RMBS

  Australian mortgage lender Liberty Financial is marketing its latest prime RMBS deal — Liberty 2018-3 — and is looking to drum up interest for a euro denominated tranche to be included in the capital structure.

  • 19 Sep 2018

• French investors fuel 10 year senior flurry

  French insurance companies have helped to drive a stronger bid for longer dated paper in the financial institutions bond market, allowing a rare spate of 10 year trades to surface in euros this week.

  • 12 Jul 2018

• Trio of senior deals hit screens as banks stop waiting

  Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel attracted more than €4.5bn of orders for a dual-tranche offering at the beginning of the week, as it joined ABN Amro and Westpac in pouncing on strong conditions in the euro senior unsecured market.

  • 09 Jul 2018

• Foreign borrowers eye up francs as Swiss arb returns in spades

  Swiss franc bonds are frequenting treasurers’ minds again as windows for arbitrage funding return to the market. For three years, Swiss market participants have gritted their teeth as cross-currency basis swaps and attractive funding conditions in core markets squeezed supply from abroad. But this seems to be changing. Four foreign borrowers raised benchmark bonds this week, and bankers expect many more to follow before the summer lull. Silas Brown reports.

  • 17 May 2018

• HSBC prints whopper as Yankees plunder US

  HSBC took home $6bn from a callable bond issuance on Thursday, after Barclays opened the callable market for jumbo Yankee issuers earlier in the week.

  • 10 May 2018