Post-deal insights: euro market ticks the boxes for Chorus's offshore debut
- Thursday, 13 October 2016
In the wake of Chorus's inaugural offshore deal in its new guise, the issuer says the scale provided by international markets was necessary to satisfy its funding requirements. While intermediaries acknowledge that European QE dynamics may have had some effect on demand, they say solid support for Chorus was also due to the issuer's own credit story.
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