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It’s a tad early for exit interviews, yet reflective CEOs of NAB and ANZ spoke with this feel to a degree in features in the national newspapers at the weekend. read more

Kevin Matthews, a co-founder of Australian Finance Group will retire from the board after more than 25 years with the business as an executive and then director. read more

Police Bank’s chief executive Tony Taylor left the business on Friday, for family reasons. Andrew Rasby, the bank’s chief member officer, will serve as acting CEO until further notice. read more

The Reserve Bank of NZ has issued a paper on the future of the cash system, in which it proposes being given the legal responsibility for ensuring New Zealand continues to have an effective cash system. read more

BNZ, ANZ, ASB and Westpac have joined with local banks Kiwibank and TSB in agreeing with the New Zealand government to hold off closing regional bank branches for 12 months while a trial into shared regional banking hubs is run. read more

A "shocked" Westpac NZ CEO David McLean decided front footing the issue was the way to go after a report into pay equity at the bank found a gender pay gap of 30.3 per cent. read more

MoneyMe Financial Group is previewing an IPO with fund managers. read more

Standard and Poor’s reaffirmed its ratings for ten big New Zealand banks and finance companies, and said the slowdown in house price growth had put banks in a stronger position and eased economic risk. read more

New Zealand’s Commerce Commission has filed High Court proceedings against ANZ subsidiary UDC Finance alleging it has charged unreasonable default fees. read more

Latitude Financial says its market share of personal lending lifted from 8 per cent to just under 13 per cent over the past year. read more

Teachers Mutual Bank has a new chair. read more