Finance Minister Bill English says RBNZ Governor Graeme Wheeler will decide if, and when, to use new tools designed to dampen excessive growth in credit and asset prices

Latest combined core funding ratio for locally incorporated banks at 84.8% versus Reserve Bank mandated 75% minimum

PwC paper commissioned by bank lobby group says RBNZ's use of macro-prudential tools would result in borrowers paying banks higher interest rates

Big bank credit ratings in no immediate danger of downgrade from Fitch despite its concerns about potential asset bubbles

Here's a look at what's hailed as the successful use of loan-to-valuation ratio caps on home loans in Sweden, where there are some interesting comparisons with New Zealand

Loan to value ratio caps and increased sectoral capital requirements seen as the biggest threats to bank profitability out of the RBNZ's macro-prudential tools

NZ Bankers' Association says RBNZ wouldn't need macro-prudential tools right now even if it had 'em; Talks of 'pressure coming from elsewhere'

The Reserve Bank suggests it could use more than one of four macro-prudential tools simultaneously to cool excessive credit growth but not keen on LVR restrictions on home loans

BNZ Treasurer says his bank needs to borrow about NZ$1.5 bln this financial year, less than half what was needed in the 2 previous years; Keen on issuing debt in Japan

Gareth Vaughan looks at the 4 macro-prudential tools the RBNZ is considering and whether any of them will actually be used to cool an over heating housing market