Commonwealth Bank of Australia
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Two triple-A rated supranational borrowers scored big in the Australasian bond markets on Wednesday with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank selling its first Kangaroo trade and the World Bank bringing the joint biggest ever SSA Kauri bond – equalling the record it set last year. -
Demand for BPCE's latest Kangaroo note was skewed towards the preferred senior format this week, with non-preferred paper only making up A$125m ($96.0m) of the A$750m deal. The French firm was also joined in the market by Rabobank, which sold its first Aussie deal after an almost two year absence.
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BPCE and Rabobank are in the market for Aussie dollar senior paper, with bankers expecting a busy April as a slew of financial issuers refinance maturing bonds.
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The Bank of Montreal marked International Women’s Day with a Canadian dollar women in business bond this week — its first domestic issue off its sustainability framework.
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Handelsbanken is set to return to the Australian dollar market for the first time in nearly two years this week, as Aussie dollar senior paper rallies thanks to the long term absence of funding from the market's major domestic banks.
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BNP Paribas and UBS opened the offshore Australian dollar FIG market for 2021 this week, with a pair of new senior deals.
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Greencoat Renewables, the Irish wind farm fund, has made an acquisition of around €60m acquisition in Finland, a few months after the company sold equity to free up debt for purchases.
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Global financial institutions will focus more on their home markets amid a sharp fall in funding requirements this year, leaving sterling credit investors yearning for more supply from overseas FIG issuers.
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Westpac kicked off 2021’s Australian financials market on Thursday by launching a new tier two bond. Aussie borrowers are expected to focus on capital trades this year in order to meet their total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) requirements with tier two debt.
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Issuers from Greater China flooded the market with dollar deals on Tuesday, capitalising on strong appetite from investors ready to put money to work in the new year.
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Macquarie achieved a decade low print for a five year Australian dollar floater this week, as the lack of supply from financial issuers in 2020 has sent spreads grinding downwards.
