Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch Ratings have downgraded Oracle's Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) after the high profile multinational computer technology corporation sold US$15 billion of bonds on Monday.
Fitch Ratings downgraded Oracle's IDR to 'BBB+' from 'A-' while Moody’s downgraded it two levels to Baa2.
Fitch also assigned a 'BBB+'...
Alternative exchange Chi-X Asia Pacific has been acquired by U.S.-based Cboe Global Markets from its current owner J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC for an undisclosed amount.
Chi-X Asia Pacific, headquartered in Hong Kong, has its core operations in Australia and Japan, with Chi-X Australia being the second largest securities exchange...
Metrics Credit Partners has reached an agreement to purchase the Australian corporate and acquisition finance loan portfolio of Investec Australia.
Investec Australia CEO and country head, Milton Samios, said: “We are pleased with this development as it will ensure local corporates continue to be served by a highly regarded local...
The corporate regulator has warned firms need to do the right thing by their investors after companies in the Mayfair 101 Group were found to have made statements that were false, misleading or deceptive in advertisements for its debenture products.
A statement by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)...
Pallas Capital is conducting a final raise for the Pallas FM Trust up to 31st March 2021 at its current 7.5% yield after which remaining tranches will be priced at 7% yield to maturity or less.
Pallas Capital executive director Mark Spring said, “Given the high demand for property first...
Australian iron ore giant Fortescue Metals Group Ltd (FMG) has completed a US$1.5 billion bond offering.
Fortescue initially sought to raise $US750 million but high demand drove the corporate bond offering to double in size.
The senior unsecured notes have an interest rate of 4.375 per cent, maturing in April 2031.
Fortescue...
Earlier this week, US-based cellphone carrier Verizon Communications issued a AU$1.25bn bond as part of a $25bn capital raising to help pay for 3,511 US 5G network licenses it won in a US government auction last month.
The total cost of the purchases was US$45.5bn plus approximately US$8bn in costs...
BetaShares’ latest review shows the Australian ETF industry continues to grow and reached yet another new record high of $97.3B at the end of February.
The company said in its report: “The industry’s market cap grew by a relatively subdued 0.5% for the month to reach a new record high of...
Ardea Investment Management, one of Australia’s largest fixed income investment managers, has launched a long-running relative value fixed income fund for the European market.
A statement by Ardea says its Global Alpha fund targets positive returns that are independent of interest rate moves and market volatility that may impact conventional...
Data released by research company Roy Morgan reveal Australians in February had inflation expectations of 3.7% annually over the next two years, up 0.1% points on January.
The result was the highest since February and March 2020 (4.0% for both). Inflation Expectations are now 1% point below their long-term average...
