What made that lemon especially bitter was telling the very satisfied teller that I was doing it so that the children could view their KiwiSaver balances online.

The technology powering the cyber currency Bitcoin is attracting attention from financial service providers.

Stress tests show it would take an extraordinary series of events for New Zealand's banks to fail, Rob O'Neill reports.

New KiwiSaver provider Simplicity already has $50 million in assets and more than 2000 members, its managing director says.

The squeeze is being put on home loan borrowers as a second major bank lifts its fixed term mortgage rate.

Source: Westpac NZ

Westpac's full-year annual profit fell 7 per cent or A$567 million which the bank blamed on "a number of significant infrequent items".

Competition in the low interest rate credit card market is heating up with a major bank launching a no fee card and a new entrant

Home loan borrowers look set to face higher fixed-term mortgage rates despite a predicted cut to the official cash rate this week.

CEO warns there could be more hits to come as the business looks to further restructuring.

Ranfurly's only bank closed its doors yesterday.

ANZ - the country's largest bank - has announced a 13 per cent drop in net profits to $1.54 billion for the year to September 30 . The

A bombshell hit London this week: Mark Carney, the most powerful man in the British economy, will only be in his job until mid-2019.

New Zealanders could be vulnerable to fraud and theft if they meet the wrong person online.

In a major backwards step for its overseas operations, ANZ has struck a deal to sell off its retail and wealth operations across Asia.

A deal which sees the New Zealand Super Fund and Accident Compensation Corp take a partial stake in Kiwibank's holding company has completed.

A delay at ANZ's deceased estates department is costing grieving families thousands as they struggle to pay funeral costs.

AmEx is hoping to grab a bigger share of the credit card market with the launch of a new card offering the highest Airpoint dollar earn rate for purchases in NZ.

ASB will send out the first of 50,000 new digital piggy banks from today as part of its bid to encourage children of the 21st Century to save.

BNZ customers are currently unable to access internet banking according to an outage report on their website.

Finance company could be sold within a year, according to rating agency Standard and Poor's.

After Deb Hallyburton left her husband's funeral, she found herself locked out of their accounts. A rogue employee had gone too far.

Kiwibank's systems are up and running again after a tKiwibank's systems are up and running again after a two-hour outage which struck around midday, in the middle of Labour Day sales.

New Zealand's banks paid out nearly $450,000 in the past year to settle disputes with their customers through the Ombudsman service.

The bank has confirmed it may restructure parts of its business and the Herald understands up to 500 jobs could be affected.

New Zealand banks paid out nearly $450,000 in the last year to settle disputes with their customers.

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has officially opened its New Zealand subsidiary in Auckland.

Despite stereotypes of the younger generation spending with no consequences, young people see their money decisions as their responsibility.

COMMENT: When it comes to misuse of our own money, Kiwis get the gold medal for self-justification.

HSBC New Zealand is closing bank accounts with balances under $100,000 in a move one customer has blasted as discriminatory.