Banks are dropping mortgage rates and offering cash sweeteners, loaded credit cards, payment of legal fees and tablet computers as they go to war for customers.

New Zealanders are collectively paying more than $600 million a year in interest on personal credit card debt, according to figures from the Reserve Bank.

Govt has foiled an alleged BNZ KiwiSaver scheme which would have offered reduced scheme returns in exchange for mortgage benefits.

The number of mortgagee sales in the first half of this year is close to figures last seen in the recession in 2009.

How would you feel if someone muscled in front of you in the queue at the bank? How would you feel if the manager actually encouraged queue-jumping? Bernard Hickey looks at bank assets.

The four Australian-owned banks earn more out of NZ than banks in most other countries, but that's the price of a sound financial system, says Alan Bollard.

Join us today from 1pm for a live chat with ANZ chief executive David Hisco on the decision to phase out the National Bank brand.

Rival banks could "very well" use financial incentives to attract customers upset by the closure of the National brand, a banking expert says.

ANZ National Bank has confirmed that after almost ten years of operating ANZ and The National Bank in New Zealand, the two brands will be brought together as ANZ.

Have your say. Are you happy at the prospect of the iconic National Bank being amalgamated into the ANZ? Leave a comment here.