A Whanganui resident has been subject to scam banking text messages.

Despite painstaking and careful restoration of a historic bank building in Marton, Auckland owner Steve Quinn's progress has now been

John Waller was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to business and the community last year.

Auckland property developers fear that a sudden tightening of bank lending may "throttle" new housing projects despite the city's desperate housing shortage.

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.

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.

BNZ has cracked the billion dollar profit level, but has put aside a big pile of cash for potential bad debts from its rural customers.

Bank shoots past the billion-dollar mark for the first time.

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.

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.

Reserve Bank may take interest rates to a new record low by October.

Things are still looking healthy for New Zealand's banks, despite a fall in lending margins at the start of this year.

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.