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Westpac moves to soothe MPs fears

20 Aug 12, 4:14pm, Alex Tarrant
Westpac says unsecured depositors in bank with maximum 10% covered bond issuance would still be made whole in 'catastrophic default event'

Funding cost rises not hurting banks

15 Mar 12, 3:54pm, Gareth Vaughan
Gareth Vaughan gives 8 reasons why the big banks aren't feeling much of a squeeze from rising funding costs

Huge demand for Westpac NZ debt

Updated 14 Mar 12, 9:58am, Gareth Vaughan
Westpac 3-yr bond pulls in NZ$750m as 3 banks raise NZ$1.25 billion between them through domestic debt issues in under a week

Funding cost rises fail to bite NZ banks

09 Mar 12, 3:15pm, Gareth Vaughan
The Reserve Bank says banks cutting fixed-term mortgage rates suggests they have comfort around funding cost pressures

Westpac's quake cover pool rejig

14 Jun 11, 3:58pm, Gareth Vaughan
Westpac pulled up to NZ$80m of Chch mortgages from covered bond pool after Feb quake

Westpac issues covered bonds

Updated 13 Jun 11, 9:36am, Gareth Vaughan
Westpac 2nd New Zealand bank to issue covered bonds, raises 1 billion euros (NZ$1.74 billion)

Westpac delays covered bond issue

24 Feb 11, 3:26pm, Gareth Vaughan
Westpac postpones 1b euros (NZ$1.8b) covered bond issue, blames Middle East turmoil