If any bias has been on display it is Norman's against the banks, commercial and central, writes Brian Fallow.

An Auckland banker has been charged with stealing nearly $1 million from his clients and faces 41 criminal offences, including money laundering.

Editorial: Banks need to be more careful about handing over personal information to the police. They must make it their business to assess whether a request constitutes a valid reason for sidelining the Privacy Act.

The NZIER shadow board believes Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler should leave the official cash rate on hold at 2.5 per cent on Thursday.

Banks get daily requests from the police for personal banking information, and one says it is influenced by law enforcement interest when it assesses customers.

Retail banks across New Zealand have stepped in to help school staff financially affected by the Novopay debacle.

Subdued inflation will keep the Reserve Bank's official cash rate on hold until at least 2014, the NZIER predicts.

For the past two years a gleeful band of Eurosceptics in the Anglo-US political establishment have been arguing that the euro cannot survive.

Banks are going into battle for new customers with free tablet computers, contributions to house painting and cash handouts all up for grabs.

Live Chat - send in your questions for Kirk Hope, chief exec of the NZ Bankers' Association...

New Zealand's mostly Australian-owned banks are not as profitable as they appear, despite very strong earnings, the NZ Bankers Association says.

One of New Zealand's wealthiest men is selling his share in the Moscow-based investment bank he founded nearly 20 years ago.

is interesting times in economics and politics. The big ideas are simply not there.

See a reply of our live chat about property and real estate with Wendy Alexander, chief executive of real estate agency Barfoot & Thompson.