ASB is dropping the CBA name as it seeks to double its market share in the institutional and corporate banking sector.

Over 9200 NZers have saved $75,000 in the two weeks since ASB launched a programme directed at helping customers save.

New Kiwibank head Paul Brock is urging potential first home buyers not to be spooked and to go out and buy, so long as they can afford to.

Thousands of Aucklanders flocked to the official opening of the refurbished Eden Park stadium today.

Only seven companies - including the three "Heartland Bank" merger partners - have signed up for the Crown's extended retail deposit guarantee scheme.

ASB Bank has confirmed that the face of its long running advertising campaign, New York banker Ira Goldstein, will be no more.

NZ Post has come out top of a new Corporate Reputation Index, while Telecom has come bottom of the list.

Kiwibank accounted for 40 per cent of new residential mortgages written by the major banks in the June quarter.

The Christchurch earthquake means the Reserve Bank is now unlikely to raise the Official Cash Rate (OCR) again until next year, ASB economists say.

APN News & Media, publisher of nzherald.co.nz, is today launching a nation-wide appeal for Christchurch earthquake victims.

Armed robbers are believed to have got away with thousands of dollars after holding up an Armourguard security van outside an ASB bank in west Auckland this afternoon.

New Zealand Football announced a multi-million dollar five-year partnership with ASB today.