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.

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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.

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ANZ's New Zealand boss has received an 11 per cent boost to his pay package mainly driven by an increase in rights to own more shares in the bank.

Striking Northland ratepayers could soon find their banks have effectively paid the council's bill from their accounts.

But a systemically important bank may not be allowed to fail in future, says S&P.

Better attitudes towards saving and debt reduction in New Zealand are being driven by fear and are unsustainable, says the head of a major bank.

Bill English has defended banks against accusations from one of his own MPs that they are "gouging" customers with high overdraft rates, especially for farmers.