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SCF fraud trial delayed by a month
New Zealand's biggest white-collar fraud trial has been delayed a month and won't start until next March.
Australia's housing sector showing recovery signs
Australia's housing sector is in the tentative stages of a recovery as investors and homeowners take advantage of low interest rates.
Power outage affects Eftpos terminals
A power outage has shutdown some Eftpos terminals in Auckland this morning.
Bank gives out forged notes
One of New Zealand's biggest banks has scrambled to assess its security systems after handing out hundreds of dollars in counterfeit money.
Bernard Hickey: Borrow now while stocks last and the price is right
Bernard Hickey writes: In the past couple of years, borrowers and bankers haven't thought of money as being in short supply.
Skimmers target ANZ ATM machines
ANZ says customers have fallen victim to fraudsters using card-skimming devices on its ATM machines.
Bankers knock new capital plans
The Bankers Association is critical of Reserve Bank proposals to increase the amount of capital banks have to hold against home loans with a high loan-to-value ratio (LVR).
Helen Twose: Disclosure standard getting higher
All the publicity around the sale of Mighty River Power and the possibility KiwiSaver providers would buy a stake got me thinking about what my provider had invested my money in.
Bernard Hickey: Still too big to fail
Bernard Hickey says: "Haircuts" for Kiwi bank depositors would never be allowed to happen.
Consumer Watch: Still too big to fail
Labour and the Greens are right. Our banks are too big to fail and we should be honest about that by creating a deposit insurance scheme for deposits of less than $250,000.
Cypriot crisis puts spotlight on planned NZ bank policy
The Cypriot crisis has turned a spotlight on the open bank resolution (OBR) policy the Government and Reserve Bank have been working on, even though, as the bank has been quick to point out, the situations are very different.