Aussie bank funding collapses

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Macquarie Bank has joined National Australia Bank in withdrawing hybrid security offers, with both citing market volatility and its likely impact on the price of the notes once they listed.

Macquarie withdrew its A$500 million offer of Macquarie Capital Notes 2, which it had launched on February 11, saying it made the decision “in light of significantly changed market conditions in recent weeks”.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.