Two of our biggest banks will no longer lend to overseas-based buyers of New Zealand property.

An online banking blip left some BNZ customers out of pocket and embarrassed this afternoon.

A 16 per cent drop in the Bank of New Zealand's net profit after tax was due mainly to lower gains on financial instruments, affected

National Australia Bank's New Zealand cash earnings dropped 3 per cent in its first half as the lender took impairments against its rural loan book.

An ex-BNZ banker, who approved a loan for his own property development, has cut a deal with police over forfeiting $250,000 of frozen funds.

Bank of New Zealand cut its forecast for Fonterra Cooperative Group's payout to farmers this season amid continued weakness in dairy prices.

BNZ is facing a lawsuit which a liquidator of a freight-forwarding company says should have gone to the New Zealand Customs Service for import duty.

But shine of record earnings dulled by news of slower growth.

It's an affordability issue, not necessarily a bubble.

BNZ has disclosed research finding almost 1 in 3 homeowners will be older than retirement age before they throw off the shackles of a home mortgage.

State-owned bank now offering six-month rates of 5.19 per cent - and 4.59 per cent for a two-year term.

BNZ reduces one-year fixed rate to 4.35 per cent ahead of Reserve Bank's expected announcement that OCR will be cut.

NZ's five biggest banks continued to show strong earnings growth, but questions are being raised about whether this can be sustained.

It's a 60-year low as banks vie to undercut each other.

BNZ has lowered its 2015/16 milk price forecast for Fonterra but says it expects dairy prices to recover late this year.

Disruption is not something the Co-Operative Bank or BNZ have actively sought, they say, but was rather a by-product of striving for improvement.

The banks has been named bank of the year for everyday banking by consumer organisation Canstar.

Is the Govt really getting double the amount of dividends from its sold down power companies?

The number of mortgage holders paying break fees to cash in on near record-low interest rates has jumped, with some homeowners saving thousands from the switch.

McVitty Properties has completed its liquidation, leaving creditor BNZ with a shortfall of about $2.6 million.

KiwiSaver providers are struggling to move savers out of the default funds despite a requirement by the Government to give people more information on their choices.

BNZ boss Anthony Healy says he doesn't believe the Auckland property market is entering bubble territory.

BNZ cash earnings have risen 4.5 per cent in the six months ended March 31 to $418 million as growth in housing and business lending, and lower funding costs, drove up net interest income.

Profits were squeezed in New Zealand's banking sector during the final quarter of last year as non-interest income decreased and impaired asset expenses rose.

The lawyer heading up a legal fight against NZ's major banks over fees says he won't be throwing the towel in despite a ruling in favour of ANZ in Australia.

At least four banks have quietly dropped cash incentives aimed at wooing home loan customers.