Meet microfinance pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, banker to the world's poor.

The average floating mortgage is expected to rise by $10 a week after the Reserve Bank lifted the OCR for the first time since 2007.

nzherald.co.nz readers have shown strong support for a prostitute being sued by ASB for the money she was given by fraudster Stephen Versalko.

ASB Bank is trying to reclaim up to $2.55 million given by convicted bank fraudster Stephen Versalko to an Auckland prostitute, during his nine year scam.

Did the banks give F&P a rough ride?

Opinion is divided on whether inflationary pressures and the global crisis will be enough for Alan Bollard to begin lifting rates next week.

A tall, curvaceous banker claims she was forced out of her job because male co-workers found her figure and clothes "too distracting".