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KangaNews is pleased to reveal the results of its 11th annual Fixed-Income Research Poll, a survey that asks institutional investors in the Australian fixed-income market to rank the research they receive across a range of sectors.

New Zealand issuers dominated Australasian market activity in the week bridging May and June with Bank of New Zealand landing a senior-unsecured transaction and MTF Finance executing a rare New Zealand dollar securitisation print. New Zealand nonbank Avanti Finance also priced a Kangaroo deal.

Worley printed a euro sustainability-linked bond (SLB) on 1 June, its inaugural public capital markets deal and also the first public SLB from an Australian issuer. The borrower opted for a single, highly ambitious target which aligns with its corporate sustainability strategy, and spurned the need for borrower upside in the funding mechanism.