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You can avoid excessive spreads and fees

15 Aug 18, 12:16pm

The trap in the app: how using bank apps locks you into excessively high spreads and fees when you convert money from or to your New Zealand accounts. And why direct negotiation will save you a bundle
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Term deposit offers start falling

14 Aug 18, 12:42pm

David Chaston

35 comments

BNZ and SBS Bank trim some rates for terms one year and longer. Kiwibank raises its 200 day 'special offer' rate. These changes come as wholesale interest rates shift sharply lower
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Westpac sees 1-in-3 chance of OCR cut within 12 months

14 Aug 18, 12:21pm

Greg Ninness

16 comments

Westpac Chief Economist Dominick Stephens says the Adrian Orr-led RBNZ appears to be considering OCR reductions and is less inclined towards hikes
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Wave goodbye to big bank profit increases – Moody’s

14 Aug 18, 9:29am

Jason Walls

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Credit ratings agency Moody's says big year after year increases in major Kiwi banks’ profits are coming to an end
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Sentencing wraps up $54m mortgage fraud saga

3 Aug 18, 3:34pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

13 comments

Suspended lawyer and former BNZ staffer jailed for involvement in mortgage fraud scheme; property developer sentenced to home detention
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NZ's major banks not following parents' ATM lead

3 Aug 18, 12:42pm

Gareth Vaughan

New Zealand's big four banks don't appear to be following in their Aussie parents' footsteps when it comes to ATMs
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Falling unemployment rate streak picked to end on Wednesday

30 Jul 18, 12:01pm

Jason Walls

7 comments

Economists say it’s likely New Zealand’s unemployment rate won’t move when the data is released on Wednesday, but wage inflation is expected to jump
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Big four banks push advertising spending higher

26 Jul 18, 9:57am

Gareth Vaughan

1 comment

New Zealand banks lift advertising spending 38% in first-half of 2018 led by BNZ and ANZ
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Tipping point for current economic cycle ‘not far away’ BNZ warns

26 Jul 18, 5:00am

Jason Walls

58 comments

NZ’s economic cycle is very much into the mature phase, according to BNZ’s Stephen Toplis, who says rising international interest rates could spell trouble for the Kiwi economy
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Can we really be headed to negative rates?

21 Jul 18, 10:02am

Guest

31 comments

BNZ's Craig Ebert can't shake the niggle that there is a fundamental inconsistency in RBNZ policy positions. But he suspects it may be our exchange rate, rather than interest rates that will sort it out
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No surprise returns for KiwiSaver default funds are sagging

20 Jul 18, 9:43am

David Chaston

9 comments

David Chaston joins the call for KiwiSavers to move investments in default funds elsewhere, unless they're nearing retirement
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NZ’s regions to take centre stage as GDP growth is picked to slow

19 Jul 18, 9:17am

Jason Walls

7 comments

Infometrics is expecting GDP growth of roughly 2% a year until 2021 – 1% under Treasury’s forecast – and the regions are expected to do the economic heavy lifting
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Westpac and AMP: 'It's not us'

19 Jul 18, 7:29am

Jenée Tibshraeny

7 comments

Which 3 life insurance providers is the FMA considering taking regulatory action against? Westpac and AMP rule themselves out; 2 providers stay silent
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Goldman Sachs picks February 2019 OCR hike

18 Jul 18, 2:16pm

Jason Walls

26 comments

Goldman Sachs' predicting a February OCR increase makes the investment bank the market hawk, with most other forecasters picking a hike in the second half of 2019
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Kiwibank gets new Main man as Treasurer

12 Jul 18, 11:14am

David Hargreaves

The changes continue to be made at Kiwibank following the reshuffle of shareholding
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Businesses team up on climate change

12 Jul 18, 7:56am

David Hargreaves

16 comments

A group of 60 NZ CEOs have joined forces 'to help New Zealand transition to a low emissions economy'
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'Big NZ banks could absorb material losses in downturn & remain solvent'

11 Jul 18, 8:48am

Gareth Vaughan

18 comments

Stress testing shows the big 4 banks' combined pre-tax profit would tumble $32b over 5 years but they wouldn't breach capital requirements & would remain solvent, the RBNZ says
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Aussie owned banks face dual reporting of credit risk in NZ

11 Jul 18, 8:38am

Gareth Vaughan

8 comments

RBNZ makes 'in-principle' decision for ANZ, ASB, BNZ & Westpac to be required to report credit risk through both their current internal models approach and the standardised approach
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Fonterra's $7 milk price 'under pressure'

4 Jul 18, 1:15pm

David Hargreaves

5 comments

The sharpest fall in global dairy prices for over a year raises questions about whether the current level of forecast milk price for farmers this season will be achievable
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Kiwibank also cuts 1yr mortgage rate

2 Jul 18, 9:05am

David Chaston

7 comments

Kiwibank is the third bank to adopt 4.19% as its one year fixed home loan rate as the reductions keep coming at the popular end of the fixed term options
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