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New York City Transitional Finance Authority Announces Successful Sale of $1.5 Billion Future Tax Secured Subordinate Bonds
The New York City Transitional Finance Authority (“TFA”) announced the successful sale of $1.5 billion of future tax secured subordinate bonds, comprised of $1.16 billion of tax-exempt fixed rate bonds and $341 million of taxable fixed rate bonds. Proceeds from the sale will be used to fund capital projects and refund certain outstanding bonds for debt service savings.
The refunding portion of the transaction achieves approximately $64 million in total debt service savings, primarily spread across Fiscal Years 2025 through 2029.
For the tax-exempt bonds, TFA received over $406 million of orders during the retail order period and $2.3 billion of priority orders during the institutional order period, which in total represents 2.4x the amount offered for sale.
Due to investor demand for the tax-exempt bonds, yields on the bonds maturing in 2025 and 2026 were set after the retail order period and lowered by 5 basis points and 2 basis points, respectively. Final yields were also reduced relative to the start of the institutional order period by 6 basis points in 2034; by 5 basis points in 2033; by 4 basis points in 2030 and 2032; by 3 basis points in 2031, 2035, and 2042 through 2044; by 2 basis points in 2027, 2029, 2041, 2045, and 2053; and by 1 basis point in 2036.
Final yields on the tax-exempt bonds ranged from 2.95% to 4.78%.
Additionally, TFA received total indications of interest (IOI) of $1.5 billion for the taxable bonds, representing approximately 4.5x the amount offered for sale.
Given demand for the taxable bonds, spreads to reference Treasuries were reduced between IOI and final pricing by 15 basis points in 2029 and 2030; by 13 basis points in 2027 and 2040; by 12 basis points in 2028; by 10 basis points in 2026, 2035, 2038, and 2039; by 7 basis points in 2031, 2032, and 2034; by 6 basis points in 2036 and 2037; and by 2 basis points in 2033.
Final yields on the taxable bonds ranged from 4.477% to 5.658%.
The bonds were underwritten through a syndicate led by book-running lead manager Jefferies, with BofA Securities, Ramirez & Co., Inc., RBC Capital Markets, and Siebert Williams Shank serving as co-senior managers.