ASB prints New Zealand's first big-four bank senior deal of 2016 [UPDATED]

On March 2, ASB (AA-/Aa3/AA-) priced a new, self-led March 2019 maturity senior domestic bond. The floating-rate deal is ASB's first domestic benchmark issue since November last year, and the first local senior bond from a big-four New Zealand bank in 2016, according to KangaNews data.