• Contact
  • Feedback
Banking Day
Stay Ahead. Stay Informed.
Concise. Candid. Provocative.
Get the daily banking news that matters
Banking Day – Your trusted source for independent financial insights.
Subscribe Now
  • News
  • Topics
    • All Topics
    • Briefs
    • Major Banks
    • Authorised deposit-taking institutions
    • Insurance, funds and super
    • Payments, mobile & wallets
    • Consumer lending
    • Mortgages
    • Business lending
    • Finance regulation
    • Debt capital markets
    • Ratings agencies
    • Equity capital markets
    • Professional services
    • Work & career
    • Foreign news
    • Other topics
  • Free Trial
  • Subscribe
  • Resources
    • Industry events
  • About us
    • About Banking Day
    • Advertise
    • Feedback
    • Contact Banking Day
  • Search
  • Login
  • My account
    • Account settings
    • User Admin
    • Logout

Login or request a free trial

Liberty prices RMBS, breaks free via its bonds

24 April 2015 10:34AM
Liberty Financial yesterday priced a A$500 million residential mortgage backed securitisation, after launching earlier in the week. This transaction, the Liberty Series 2015-1 RMBS issue, is the thirty-first public term securitisation in Australia from the non-bank lender.The top two tranches rated by Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's (the Aaa/AAA Notes only). Deutsche Bank was the sole arranger and joint lead manager, along with Commonwealth Bank and National Australia Bank.The transaction attracted strong interest from investors across all offered tranches, which led to the deal being well oversubscribed, according to a company statement from Liberty. More details from Liberty: The A$370.0 million Class A1 notes, to be rated Aaa(sf)/AAA(sf) by Moody's and S&P, have a weighted average life of about 2.2 years, and priced at a margin of 105 basis points over one month BBSW. The A$62.0 million Class A2 notes, to be rated Aaa(sf)/AAA(sf) with a weighted average life of about 2.2 years, priced at a margin of 135 basis points over one month BBSW.The pricing of the Class B, C, D, E and F notes - to be rated by Moody's alone - was not disclosed (Ratings: Aa2(sf), A2(sf), Baa2(sf), Ba2(sf) and B2(sf) ).It comes a couple of weeks after settlement on a $100 million senior debt issue. Liberty is moving away from being purely a securitisation-funded operation.Peter Riedel, chief financial officer at Liberty, said this was an example of how Liberty was moving to diversify its funding sources, after being rated BBB- by S&P earlier this year.

I'm a returning subscriber

*
Password reset *
Login

Request a free trial

  • Emailing you the news at 7am.
  • Covering core lending and funding issues, strategy, payments, regulation, risk management, IT, marketing and more.
  • Original news and summaries of major stories from other media – ditch your newspaper subscriptions.
  • Focused on banking and finance, saving you the time spent wading through newspapers and other services.
  • With reporting from former editors and senior writers from the AFR and The Australian.
  • Configured for your phone, laptop and PC.
Free trial Banking Day
Stay Ahead. Stay Informed.
Concise. Candid. Provocative.
Get the daily banking news that matters
Banking Day – Your trusted source for independent financial insights.
Subscribe Now

Copyright © WorkDay Media 2003-2025.

Banking Day is a WorkDay Media publication

WorkDay Media Unit Trust

  • Privacy policy
  • Terms of access and use