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Households need to do more, says Bollard
New Zealanders should do more to address economic imbalances, especially external debt, says the Reserve Bank.
More uridashi sales would be useful, Bollard says
Alan Bollard says a pickup in sales of 'uridashi' bonds to Japanese investors would be useful.
Ethics of bank sales targets questioned
Bank sales techniques are under fire after a survey showed workers were concerned about promoting products to customers who could not afford them.
Homegrown disadvantage for banks
For the past three years Kiwibank has been voted New Zealand's Most Trusted Bank in the annual Reader's Digest poll.
The man who lends cash to people banks won't touch
Meet microfinance pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, banker to the world's poor.
OCR up, mortgages to rise $10 a week
The average floating mortgage is expected to rise by $10 a week after the Reserve Bank lifted the OCR for the first time since 2007.
<i>Brian Fallow:</i> Rates going up but where's the ceiling?
Brian Fallow writes that several factors will influence how often Bollard taps the brakes.