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The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has ramped up its review of capital adequacy requirements in the wake of changes by APRA after the Murray Review and new global rules announced this week for systemical.. read more

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has unveiled a new analysis of loan to income multiple data on mortgages showing around 40 per cent of new loans were written at multiples of over five times income ove.. read more

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has suggested the Reserve Bank of New Zealand look at using more macro-prudential tools to slow down Auckland's rampant housing market if the current measures to.. read more

New Zealand's Retailers Association has launched a campaign against fees charged by credit and debt card schemes and banks that it says are higher than in similar markets such as Australia and Britain.. read more

New Zealand's largest department store group, The Warehouse, has launched two of its own Visa credit cards aimed at building a loan book worth NZ$600 million within five years. read more

Regional bank Heartland New Zealand has announced a simplification of its governance structure, a tier two capital issue and a planned capital return. read more

New Zealand's mutually-owned Co-operative Bank has launched an all-out attack on the Big Four Australian owned banks as Labour and Green MPs also criticised the banks' record annual profits. read more

Westpac New Zealand has posted faster profit growth than its rivals in the second half of the financial year as it chose not to chase market share growth in the hyper-competitive mortgage market. read more

Prominent Auckland mortgage broker John Bolton has launched a peer-to-peer lending platform aimed at matching up savers looking for better returns than they can get from a bank with personal loan borr.. read more

ANZ New Zealand has reported a one per cent rise in cash profit between the first and second halves of the financial year as strong lending growth and flat costs were enough to offset a rise in bad de.. read more