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![Wellington bar The George insolvent: landlord changed locks, $800,000+ owed](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=808)
Wellington bar The George insolvent: landlord changed locks, $800,000+ owed
Landlord changed locks after bar failed to pay rent, and IRD makes move.
![Banks made record $7b last year - that's up by a billion dollars](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=808)
Banks made record $7b last year - that's up by a billion dollars
The figures are bound to stoke calls for a banking inquiry.
![Merger and acquisitions in NZ at six-year high](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=808)
Merger and acquisitions in NZ at six-year high
Merger and acquisition activity had its best first half of the year in 6 years.
![Bank profits dip as lending growth outpaces deposits](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=808)
Bank profits dip as lending growth outpaces deposits
Profits across New Zealand's banks dipped in the June quarter driven in part by record lending outpacing funding.
![KPMG: Conventions centres $940m investment in new visitors](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=808)
KPMG: Conventions centres $940m investment in new visitors
New Zealand's efforts to gain a bigger slice of the global, multi-billion-dollar conventions industry will need expert marketing and relationship-building to succeed.
![KPMG: Good corporate conduct brings big benefits](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=808)
KPMG: Good corporate conduct brings big benefits
Companies which address the burgeoning threat of conduct risk stand to be winners in the marketplace, according to a top financial consultancy firm.
![KPMG: Peer-to-peer lending yet to face real test](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=808)
KPMG: Peer-to-peer lending yet to face real test
The newly launched peer-to-peer (P2P) lenders may have to prove they can endure an economic downturn and become more transparent before becoming a major force in the personal/consumer loan markets.
![KPMG: Financial advisers still have trust issues](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=808)
KPMG: Financial advisers still have trust issues
New Zealanders need advice from financial advisers to improve complex investment and retirement outcomes but face an enormous obstacle - a lack of trust, says KPMG's Head of Financial Services, John Kensington.
![KPMG: The DNA of high-flying businesses](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=808)
KPMG: The DNA of high-flying businesses
The cry comes from everyone - politicians, civil servants, captains of industry, farmers, all the vital cogs in New Zealand's economic machine:
![KPMG: NZ food aimed at 800m of world's richest people](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=808)
KPMG: NZ food aimed at 800m of world's richest people
New Zealand's primary produce has to be positioned as "the Louis Vuitton of food". KPMG's global head of agribusiness, Ian Proudfoot, says if our food is to remain relevant in a fast-changing world, New Zealand agribusiness has to change the way it does t