ANZ Bank union members will be walking off the job tomorrow, after a vote earlier this week to take strike action.

ANZ workers have announced a national strike over new employment agreements being offered to staff.

Almost a quarter of New Zealand executives think top-level managers' pay packets are out of kilter with reality, a survey suggests.

World prices for a basket of New Zealand's export commodities fell 1.3 per cent last month, with dairy products once more leading the decline.

Business confidence continued to slide last month, to its lowest levels since June 2012 in ANZ's Business Outlook survey.

ANZ staff in New Zealand are considering a national strike over the bank's attempts "casualise" its workforce, a union says.

In an effort to lower rates and weaken the currency, Labour is pledging to broaden the RBNZ's policy goal by re-writing its main objective.

Australia & New Zealand Banking Group says its New Zealand unit grabbed market share of home and commercial lending in the latest quarter as an improving economy stoked credit growth.

ANZ's Truckometer recorded an increase in heavy traffic on roads last month.

Westpac New Zealand says it is gearing up to release a world first banking app that will allow customers to view their account details in 3D.

ANZ's commodity price index fell 2.4 per cent last month, led by a decline in dairy products and logs which make up more than half the trade-weighted basket.

KiwiSaver members should pay close attention to how much their providers are charging, a global research firm has warned.

Wheelchair users who can't get into a new bank branch in downtown Auckland say its inaccessible design makes New Zealand look like a "Third World" country.

A former banking boss breached duties owed to a consultancy firm he helped set up, profited at its expense, and is now liable to it for more than $1 million.

The ANZ Banking Group is bidding for a banking licence in Burma but faces major challenges in doing so.

New Zealand business confidence slid this month and rising interest rates have been fingered as the culprit.

Strong growth in construction led to a 1.0 per cent rise in gross domestic product (GDP) in the March 2014 quarter, Statistics New Zealand said today.

ANZ Bank says its Truckometer indices bode well for economic growth into the second half of the year.

Business confidence has declined for the third month in a row, ANZ's Business Outlook survey has found, though optimists still outnumber pessimists nearly 10 to one

New Zealand business confidence extended its slide from a record high to a third month, in the face of rising interest rates, declining dairy prices and a persistently high kiwi dollar.

Consumer confidence fell to a seven-month low as two interest rate hikes and expectations for slower economic growth later this year sapped people's optimism.

New Zealand architects, including Auckland's much-awarded Andrew Patterson, have been critical of Australian practices winning big jobs here.