It's strange that the National Australia Bank's (NAB) final knockback in its attempt to take over AXA has received such little airplay in the New Zealand press.

This week I am playing it safe with an easy target. Let's hear it for receivers.

New home owners are finding themselves in limbo as insurers refuse to write any new policies for Christchurch's shaken homes.

Directors of our failed companies may well feel beleaguered as the spotlight of public reprobation turns in their direction.

Dear Allan Hubbard. Please take responsibility for the mess created by the boom and now bust of the South Island's largest financial institution, writes Bernard Hickey.

The former boss of Lehman Brothers has let loose his bitterness at the US government's failure to save his firm in 2008.