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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.
Pressure on Bollard to hold rates steady
Opinion is divided on whether inflationary pressures and the global crisis will be enough for Alan Bollard to begin lifting rates next week.
NZX keen to get new bank on board
A proposal to launch a new listed New Zealand bank has been welcomed by the market and the stock exchange operator.
George Kerr has hand in heartland bank deal
Pyne Gould major shareholder George Kerr is thought to have had a strong hand in the deal to merge Marac with CBS and the Sthn Cross Building Society.
Dr Doom warns of bubble trouble
Economies of Brazil, China, India are all overheating, says this professor.
<i>Inside Money: </i>Trouble down the millionaires factory
Macquarie Bank hasn't churned out too many millionaires in NZ.