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 New Zealand dollar is within striking distance of its post-float high against the US dollar and may surpass it, says an analyst.

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.

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.

Auckland house sales data for June is out, showing a slight decline in sales volumes but average sale prices up $11,088 - that's a daily price rise of $369.60.

France's BNP Paribas has pleaded guilty to concealing billions of dollars in transactions for clients in Sudan, Iran and Cuba in violation of US sanctions.

Reverse equity mortgages are increasingly tempting to retired Aucklanders who have houses soaring in value, but little cash.