Kanga.Trends Banco Santander visits Aussie investors. Repo extension a pyrrhic victory for Kangaroo agencies. Deals pulled in wake of euro fee hike for SSAs. IWT changes passed by senate: impact on semi-government issuance. RMBS: outside investors nibble as AOFM bites. New Zealand ends 2008 with wave of retail corporate deals. NZ government guarantee. Westpac NZ revives stalled 2013 domestic. Transpower issues first NZ deal for over three years. ANZ National returns with 2010 and 2014 taps. BNZ prices 2015s and first bank-guaranteed deal in NZ. Tauranga City Council issues 2013s.
Feature: The year of living dangerously For issuers, investors and intermediaries 2008 was a perilous year. Challenges included a paralysed primary debt market and a swamped secondary market, leading to untenable pricing across the board. KangaNews explores the dark days of the Aussie debt markets – and the glimmers of light.
Feature: Diversity and uncertainty in New Zealand The Kiwi market appears to be developing a distinct element of contrarianism, at least in terms of its issuance patterns. But despite maintaining an unusual diversity of issuers in the public markets through 2008, the capital markets were at a crossroads as the year turned.
KangaNews awards 2008: Heroes of the fall There is no better time to run annual fixed income awards than during the biggest crisis in financial markets history. In such times heroes and villains are thrown into sharp relief. Read about the awards voted by the market for the best houses, deals, issuers and personalities in the Kangaroo, Australian domestic, Kauri and New Zealand domestic bond markets in 2008.
Kanga.Deals Exclusive data on Domestic, Kangaroo and Kauri deals priced in the year to December 8. Plus league tables for AU domestic, Kangaroo, all-AUD vanilla domestic, Australian securitisation, NZ domestic, Kauri, all-NZD domestic bond markets.
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