Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 15:24
Once upon a time, the retail bond market in Australia was dormant. At the height of the Australian share market sell-off in March last year, we saw the first issue of ASX listed senior corporate...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 13:57
2009 wasn’t a bumper year for the syndicated loan market, but then that could be said of many other product sectors of the market as well. According to Thomson Reuters, the Australian loan...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 13:47
Top-ranked corporate, Westfield, played a major role in re-opening the market for Australian issuers with several significant offshore deals in 2009.
Looking to pre-fund future maturities and...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 13:28
As part of our 2009 review, Insto caught up with Tony Cripps, Head of Global Banking and Markets, HSBC Bank Australia.
How has investment banking in Australia changed during 2009
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 14:48
While the rest of the world saw a marked decrease in M&A activity over the course of 2009, the Asia- Pacific region held strong. With 2194 announced deals worth an aggregated US$412.4 billion in...
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 14:14
Being a CFO in 2009 was a tale of mastering a year in two parts.
In the first part, the “safe pair of hands” philosophy prevailed, a continuation of the themes of 2008. But as the market...
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 13:02
Investors who jumped from skyscrapers in 1929 and those who sold out in panic after the 1987 crash should at least have provided historical lessons to those who watched in dismay as the Australian...
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 12:31
As part of our 2009 review, Insto caught up with Rick Sawers, Group Executive, Wholesale banking, NAB.
How has investment banking in Australia changed during 2009
Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 22:56
Standard & Poor’s is facing $40 million in legal action over its rating of an AAA debt instrument, which slumped in the global financial crisis.
Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 22:39
PE Alert – 11 March 2010 from Mergermarket
NEW SITUATIONS
Unitas is selling Repco; reported on 07/03/2010
Private equity fund Unitas Capital has put its portfolio company Repco Perth, the...
Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 22:50
The same week as the Queensland Government appointed advisors on the float of the QR National rail assets, the coal industry has revved up its attempt to trump the bid and force a trade sale. 14 of...
Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 23:03
NAB is reportedly looking at a capital raising of up to $3 billion to fund acquisitions, such as its bid for AXA Asia Pacific and possibly a portfolio of RBS branches in the UK.
German building and...
Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 23:00
The A$3.26 billion bid for Arrow Energy from joint bidders Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina has kicked off the much-anticipated M&A action in Australia’s LNG and coal bed methane (CBM) sector....
Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 22:55
Macquarie and Deutsche Banks will acquire the third and final tranches of BrisConnections securities, taking their combined equity to over 81 percent. The two banks are underwriters for...
Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 22:54
The CEO of retail house Myer, Bernie Brookes, has conceded that the company went too early to the market for its $2 billion IPO under pressure from private equity owner TPG.
Announcing a...
Friday, March 12, 2010 - 09:01
UBS has dominated this category at the Insto Awards over the years and despite strong support for some rivals in the Awards voting the bank is once again a deserving winner.
The bank’s depth...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 10:09
Crises create challenges, but also opportunities, and Insto’s 2009 Banker of the Year Mike Smith has made the most of finding opportunities in turbulent times and positioning his institution...
Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 14:41
As part of our 2009 review, Insto caught up with Ian Saines, Group Executive of Institutional Banking & Markets, Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
How has investment banking in Australia changed...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 10:23
2009. Three consecutive rate rises, record deal volumes, diverse issuers, and significant credit spreads. We saw the debut of government guaranteed issuance and semi-government syndicated...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 16:34
Insto's Lachlan Colquhoun spoke with Matthew Grounds, joint head of investment banking at UBS Australia.
How has investment banking in Australia changed over 2009?
In Corporate Australia the main...
