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  • LGFA approve GSS Loan to Tauranga City Council

    … and restore the Kopurererua River, along with the creation of a new cycle path and a new wetland at the Kopurererua … in Tauranga. In partnership with Ngāi Tamarāwaho and Bay of Plenty Regional Council, TCC will deliver the following … benefits through this amazing project: The realignment of the river channel, and the subsequent creation of a …
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  • LGFA scoops a record five awards at KangaNews 2023 Awards

    … New Zealand Issuer of the Year New Zealand Dollar Rates Bond Deal of the Year New Zealand Sustainability Deal of the Year New Zealand Issuer Offshore Deal of the Year New …
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  • LGFA Statement of Intent 2021-2022

    … NZX Announcement 30 June 2021 LGFA 2021-22 STATEMENT OF INTENT LGFA has released to shareholders its 2021-2022 Statement of Intent (SOI) as required under the Local Government Act …
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  • LGFA fixed rate bond offer: Bookbuild update 3

    … unsubordinated, fixed rate bonds with a maturity date of 15 May 2031 (Bonds) to institutional and New Zealand … oversubscriptions at LGFA's discretion. Full details of the Bond offer are contained in the Series Notice which … out below. Bookbuild orders As at 12:30 pm NZT in excess of NZ$750 million at the revised Margin below (including …
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  • LGFA credit ratings affirmed by Fitch Ratings at AA/AA+

    … Fitch Ratings has affirmed the credit ratings of New Zealand Local Government Funding Agency at ‘AA’/ ‘AA+’ … Entities Rating Criteria. This reflects their appraisal of LGFA's 'Very Strong' status regarding ownership and control, 'Strong' level of support, 'Strong' socio-political and 'Very Strong' …
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  • Sarah Matthews

    … services.  She is currently GM – Organisation Performance of Taupō District Council and has been in local government … sector and the communities they serve.  She is a member of Taituara Financial Management Reference Group, which tackles issues of national significance around policy and practice as it …
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  • Press Release: LGFA Credit Rating Affirmed by Standard and Poors' with positive outlook

    … change applied to the Foreign Currency credit rating of "AA/A-1+" and Local Currency credit rating of "AA+/A-1+".   Following the change to the New Zealand … outlook, S&P have today placed the issuer credit ratings of LGFA on positive outlook. The LGFA Foreign Currency credit …
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  • LGFA Statement of Intent 2020-2021

    … NZX Announcement 30 June 2020 LGFA 2020-21 STATEMENT OF INTENT LGFA has released to shareholders its 2020-2021 Statement of Intent (SOI) as required under the Local Government Act …
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  • LGFA release Draft SOI 2023-26 and Forecast Borrowing Programme

    … Act 2002, LGFA is required to publish a Draft Statement Of Intent (SOI) by 28 February 2023 and publish a Final SOI by … The Draft SOI outlines an assumed bond issuance programme of: FY24 $3.2 billion FY25 $3.2 billion FY26 $3.15 billion …
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  • LGFA confirms Issue Price, Interest Rate and Issuance Yield

    … today that it will issue the following existing series of unsecured, unsubordinated, fixed rate bonds (together, the … annum Issuance Yield: 5.222% per annum, based on a Margin of 0.25% per annum Issue/Settlement Price: NZ$0.93017646 per … annum Issuance Yield: 5.231% per annum, based on a Margin of 0.73% per annum Issue/Settlement Price: NZ$0.83482242 per …
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  • LGFA fixed rate bond offers: Bookbuild update 1

    … code: LGF120 Bookbuild orders: As at 4.45pm NZT in excess of NZ$740 million (including NZ$230 million trading interest … code: LGF140 Bookbuild orders: As at 4.45pm NZT in excess of NZ$1,120 million (including NZ$175 million trading … offers to institutional and New Zealand retail investors of the above existing series of unsecured, unsubordinated, …
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  • News: Appointment of Chief Executive

    … 2011| BusinessDesk Article Philip Combes, the treasurer of the New Zealand Debt Management Office, has been tapped as head of the new local authority borrowing agency, which is to be … government. Combes is moving to become the chief executive of the Local Government Funding Agency, which will manage …
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  • Announcement of LGFA Bond Tender 72

    … NZX Announcement 29 May 2020 ANNOUNCEMENT OF LGFA BOND TENDER 72 New Zealand Local Government Funding Agency (NZX:LGF) announces details of Bond Tender 72: Tender date: 03 June 2020 Bids open on … April 2024 Coupon: 2.25% Amount Offered: NZD 110,000,000 (of which NZD 50,000,00 is reserved for subscription by LGFA) …
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  • LGFA confirms Issue Price, Interest Rate and Issuance Yield

    … today that it will issue the following existing series of unsecured, unsubordinated, fixed rate bonds below … annum Issuance Yield: 5.765% per annum, based on a Margin of 0.16% per annum Issue/Settlement Price: NZ$0.96604900 per … annum Issuance Yield: 5.536% per annum, based on a Margin of 0.69% per annum Issue/Settlement Price: NZ$0.95744837 per …
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  • LGFA confirms Issue Price, Interest Rate and Issuance Yield

    … today that it will issue the following existing series of unsecured, unsubordinated, fixed rate bonds with the … Issuance Yield: 5.124% per annum, based on a Margin of 0.28% per annum as previously announced Issue/Settlement … annum Issuance Yield: 5.219% per annum, based on a Margin of 0.56% per annum as previously announced Issue/Settlement …
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  • LGFA fixed rate bond offer: Bookbuild update 3

    … unsubordinated, fixed rate bonds with a maturity date of 20 April 2029 (Bonds) to institutional and New Zealand … investors, with the ability to accept up to $200,000,000 of oversubscriptions at LGFA’s discretion.  Full details of the Bond offer are contained in the Series Notice which …
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  • LGFA fixed rate bond offer: Bookbuild update 1

    … unsubordinated, fixed rate bonds with a maturity date of 20 April 2029 (Bonds) to institutional and New Zealand … with the ability to accept up to a further NZ$200,000,000 of oversubscriptions at LGFA’s discretion.  Full details of the Bond offer are contained in the Series Notice which …
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  • LGFA fixed rate bond offer: Bookbuild update 2

    … unsubordinated, fixed rate bonds with a maturity date of 20 April 2029 (Bonds) to institutional and New Zealand … investors, with the ability to accept up to $200,000,000 of oversubscriptions at LGFA’s discretion.  Full details of the Bond offer are contained in the Series Notice which …
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  • LGFA fixed rate bond offers: Bookbuild update 1

    … code: LGF070 Bookbuild orders: As at 3:45 pm NZT in excess of NZ$ 480 million within the indicative Margin range below … code: LGF110 Bookbuild orders: As at 3:45pm NZT in excess of NZ$210 million within the indicative Margin range below … offers to institutional and New Zealand retail investors of the above existing series of unsecured, unsubordinated, …
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  • LGFA fixed rate bond offer: Bookbuild update 3

    … unsubordinated, fixed rate bonds with a maturity date of 15 April 2026 (Bonds) to institutional and New Zealand … oversubscriptions at LGFA’s discretion. Full details of the Bond offer are contained in the Series Notice which … out below. Bookbuild orders As at 11.35 am NZT in excess of NZ$1.3 billion within the revised indicative Margin below …
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  • LGFA fixed rate bond offers: Bookbuild update 1

    … code: LGF070 Bookbuild orders: As at 4:15pm NZT in excess of NZ$325 million (including NZ$85 million trading interest … code: LGF170 Bookbuild orders: As at 4:15pm NZT in excess of NZ$810 million (including NZ$195 million trading interest … offers to institutional and New Zealand retail investors of the above existing series of unsecured, unsubordinated, …
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  • LGFA fixed rate bond offer: Bookbuild update 2

    … unsubordinated, fixed rate bonds with a maturity date of 15 April 2026 (Bonds) to institutional and New Zealand … oversubscriptions at LGFA’s discretion. Full details of the Bond offer are contained in the Series Notice which … out below. Bookbuild orders As at 8:30 am NZT in excess of NZ$750,000,000 within the revised indicative Margin below …
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  • LGFA fixed rate bond offers: Bookbuild update 2

    … code: LGF070 Bookbuild orders: As at 8:55am NZT in excess of NZ$640 million within the revised indicative Margin range … code: LGF110 Bookbuild orders: As at 8:55am NZT in excess of NZ$260 million within the revised indicative Margin range … offers to institutional and New Zealand retail investors of the above existing series of unsecured, unsubordinated, …
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  • LGFA fixed rate bond offers: Bookbuild update 2

    … code: LGF070 Bookbuild orders: As at 8:40am NZT in excess of NZ$265 million including NZ$65 million trading interest … code: LGF170 Bookbuild orders: As at 8:40am NZT in excess of NZ$870 million (including NZ$220 million trading interest … offers to institutional and New Zealand retail investors of the above existing series of unsecured, unsubordinated, …
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  • New Zealand Government Commits to Extend LGFA Liquidity Facility

    … is due to expire in December 2021 and the Minister of Finance has today announced the following “The LGFA plays … finance to the local government sector, with current loans of $10.7 billion to its sixty-seven member Councils. The … taking pressure off ratepayers. I am announcing, on behalf of the Crown, that I will extend the Crown liquidity facility …
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  • LGFA fixed rate bond offers: Bookbuild update 1

    … New Zealand retail investors the following existing series of unsecured, unsubordinated, fixed rate bonds with the … codes listed below (together, the 'Bonds'). Each series of Bonds is already quoted on the NZX Debt Market. Full details of the Bond offers are contained in the Series Notices for …
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  • LGFA launches fixed rate bond offer, cancels May tender

    … unsubordinated, fixed rate bonds with a maturity date of 15 May 2031 (Bonds) to institutional and New Zealand … to be 2.25% per annum. The Issuance Yield will be the sum of the Margin and the Base Rate on the Rate Set Date. The … LGFA does not intend to offer any additional tranches of the Bonds until its August 2021 tender, currently …
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  • LGFA fixed rate bond offers: Bookbuild update 2

    … code: LGF120 Bookbuild orders: As at 8.30am NZT in excess of NZ$860 million within the prior revised indicative Margin … code: LGF140 Bookbuild orders: As at 8.30 am NZT in excess of NZ$1,269 million within the prior revised indicative … offers to institutional and New Zealand retail investors of the above existing series of unsecured, unsubordinated, …
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  • LGFA fixed rate bond offer closes

    … following the successful bookbuild process for its offer of unsecured, unsubordinated, fixed rate bonds with a maturity date of 20 April 2029 (Bonds), it has set the issue size at NZ$500,000,000. This includes over-subscriptions of NZ$150,000,000.  The Margin for the Bonds has been set at …
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  • Nick Howell

    … Nick joined LGFA as Head of Sustainability effective 26 April 2021. Nick has a Debt … ANZ in London and worked closely on the development of the Kauri market with his next move being taking him to Westpac in Auckland in 2008 as Head of Debt Securities & Hybrids. When leaving Westpac in 2013, …
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  • David Rae

    … Fund and the OECD in Paris, as well as a range of governance roles in the investment and energy sectors.  He is currently Chair of New Zealand International Commercial Pilot Academy and a director of GasNet Ltd and the European-based renewable energy …
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  • Best Practices in Council Financial Management

    … New Zealand Local Government sector with almost 90% share of sector lending to sixty-four councils with loans outstanding to the sector as at 30 June 2019 of $9.3 billion. LGFA undertakes an ongoing review of each individual council borrowers’ financial position and …
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