St George Bank sold a $1bn global mortgage backed bond last Friday, only the second Australian issuer to take that route. Lead managed by Credit Suisse First Boston, Crusade Global Trust No 1 of 1999 garnered a host of new MBS buyers for St George, and gave the bank funding in a size not available in the domestic or Euromarkets. "We placed notes with 32 individual investors," said Peter Gow, chief manager of structured investments and securitisation at St George in Sydney. "And 63% of the total was allocated to new buyers in the US and Europe. That substantiated the decision to go down the global path."
September 24, 1999