Westpac nets record A$3.06 billion domestic 2012

Westpac Banking Corporation (AA/Aa1) (Westpac), for some time the only Australian big four bank not to have issued into its home market under the terms of the government guarantee, priced its second domestic benchmark in under a fortnight on March 11 in the form of a record A$3.06 billion (US$1.96 billion) of fixed and floating rate 2012 paper.