Wider swap spreads for Aussie offshore issuers

Cynthia Whelan joined Barclays Capital Australia last month as head of debt capital markets. She has a 12-year career in fixed-income working at UBS on sales and origination and at Merrill Lynch, first as head of their Australian dollar syndicate desk and then in debt capital markets. Her last job was with Westpac where she ran the alliance with Bank of America for US private placements. Here she discusses debt market opportunities for Australian issuers this year.