New South Wales Treasury Corporation
TCorp's toolkit expands to meet growth in future funding need
New South Wales Treasury Corporation (TCorp) has managed a growing funding task through the various Australian and international crises of the last year. Fiona Trigona, head of funding and balance sheet at TCorp in Sydney, discusses the tools that will enable the state treasury corporation to continue managing a higher call on debt capital markets.
A growing market in a troubled world
Two themes emerged most clearly from discussions at the KangaNews Debt Capital Market Summit 2025: the overall healthy state of Australia’s fixed-income market, and the increasingly turbulent world in which it operates. Taking place less than 24 hours before the latest big blow against global free trade taken by the US government, the Trump administration and its consequences were not far from every conversation.
Team Australia hits the road to fulfil expanded issuance task
The early weeks of 2025 suggested markets are picking up where they left off at the end of the previous year: ample liquidity and generally favourable issuance conditions for good-quality borrowers despite periodic volatility prompted by a febrile geopolitical environment. Australia’s high-grade issuers enter the year with plenty of funding to do and – in the case of semi-governments – heightened scrutiny on their debt burdens. KangaNews and National Australia Bank gathered a group of female leaders from the issuer and investor spaces to discuss the market outlook.
Bringing together the Australian and Canadian high-grade sectors
In October, in a KangaNews Women in Capital Markets Yearbook first, KangaNews and RBC Capital Markets brought together Australian semi-government and Canadian high-grade issuers, and Australian institutional investors to discuss the increasing crossover between the two borrower sectors and how they fit into global capital markets.
New Zealand’s debt market gets ready to deliver
The KangaNews New Zealand Debt Capital Market Summit 2024 – which took place in Auckland on 11 September – delivered a report card on local market functionality and ability to deliver capital where it is needed. Participants discussed a raft of challenges including financing infrastructure and transition, and providing investors with diversity and liquidity. An improving economy and growing scale hold promise for the years ahead.
Demand supports growing issuance from Australian sovereign sector issuers
In July, KangaNews and Westpac Institutional Bank gathered Australia’s biggest sovereign and semi-government issuers to discuss their funding needs and strategies. Semi-government spreads have risen and funding tasks remain high, but issuers have plenty of options.
HIGH-GRADE ISSUERS YEARBOOK 2024
The ultimate guide to Australian and New Zealand government-sector borrowers.
