CommBank mandates its first domestic senior-unsecured benchmark of 2015
- Monday, 13 July 2015
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CommBank) (AA-/Aa2/AA-) mandated a new self-led, five-year, senior-unsecured benchmark transaction on July 13, in what will be the bank's first public deal in the Australian market since it sold A$1.0 billion (US$743.6 million) of tier-two paper in October 2014.
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