With a fourth successive increase in the official cash rate on Thursday widely expected, the focus will be on what the brief accompanying statement indicates.

After surviving for a decade on Wall St, a Kiwi banker comes home to throw himself into charity work because ‘it feels good’.

The Kiwi dollar extended its slide as the crash of a Malaysian jet in rebel-held Ukraine and a ground offensive in Gaza sapped risk appetite worldwide.

China Construction Bank has been licensed by the Reserve Bank, making it the country's 24th registered lender.

New Zealand's dollar is the most overstretched in three years, trading patterns suggest, putting in jeopardy its chances of surpassing a record high.

BNZ's head of migrant banking, Frank Cui, reckons he has a pretty good grasp of the challenges immigrants face when building a new life in NZ.

The New Zealand dollar touched a 13-month high against the euro overnight.

The boss of New Zealand's first peer-to-peer lending service, Harmoney, says the online platform will shake up the personal loan market and give retail investors a new option.

A former banking boss traded without the knowledge of his co-directors at a consultancy business and rather than putting the firm's account on invoices he put bank accounts of companies he personally controlled, the High Court was told.

A former banking boss breached duties owed to a consultancy firm he helped set up, profited at its expense, and is now liable to it for more than $1 million.

The New Zealand government's banking services are up for tender for the first time in more than two decades.

Tim Draper has been identified as the winning bidder for a cache of 29,656 bitcoins seized from the Silk Road website and auctioned off by the US govt.