Deal and ratings review, week ending October 14 2011
The week ending October 14 saw the first Australian major bank transaction issued into the domestic market in more than two months. Elsewhere, sporadic securitisation flow continued with a new residential mortgage-backed securities issue.
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S&P and ASX launch new multi-dealer price-based Australian bond indices
Standard & Poor's (S&P) and the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) have launched a series of Australian bond indices, with the use of prices sourced from the multi-dealer platform, Yieldbroker, as a main selling point of the new product suite. S&P claims a wide range of market participants, including asset consultants, superannuation funds and funds managers, are supportive of the introduction.
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