One of the country's leading banks is about to start charging interest on each transaction if customers default on their payments.

Watchdog checks progress as several providers struggle to meet deadline for new reports.

Mum and dad investors have helped boost Australian shares to fresh five-and-a-half-year highs.

Some of the big KiwiSaver providers have been slow to put up new information disclosing fees, performance and where money is invested.

New Zealand had its highest net gain of migrants in more than 10 years last month, as even fewer Kiwis left for Australia.

Hamilton's airport is blaming the loss of its only trans-Tasman carrier for a drop in revenue - but is keeping the "international" in its title.

Tourism New Zealand says a big digital push is paying off with a surge in the number of referrals to industry businesses in the past year.

Kiwis need to brace themselves for an economic boom, writes Liam Dann, because after years in the doldrums we may not be prepared for the rebound that's coming.

Why scrap over 2 per cent of the beer market? That's the question being posed by Moa Brewing Company chief executive Geoff Ross.

He has a heart made in Arizona, hands from Scotland, ankles and feet from New England, eyes from California and the personality of a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy.

Investors will soon be able to take stakes in small Kiwi businesses through an online crowdfunding system which hopes to "liberate the New Zealand economy".

Winston Peters says changes to KiwiSaver which would stop it being "a pot of gold’’ for fund managers would be a bottom line in any post election coalition talks.

It's going to take a lot more political bungling to do any permanent damage to America's reputation or wreck its financial markets.

TV show's call for extras was the beginning of a business that has lasted for 25 years.

It's been a big week for Rod Drury. Since Monday, shares in his online accounting software firm Xero have soared in value by about 30 per cent, hitting $25.20 yesterday.

One of the largest remaining privately owned blocks of land in inner Auckland is for sale.

Fonterra's botulism scandal was one of the "greatest gifts" the company could have given to the Chinese Government, according to a visiting foreign correspondent.