The bank has confirmed it may restructure parts of its business and the Herald understands up to 500 jobs could be affected.

The BNZ-BusinessNZ performance of services index declined to a seasonally adjusted 54.1 in September.

BNZ has confirmed it may restructure parts of its business and the Herald understands hundreds of jobs could be affected.

Profits across New Zealand's banks dipped in the June quarter driven in part by record lending outpacing funding.

As more people do online transactions, small towns must adapt to closures.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.