Hanover investors asked heated questions of company directors at a meeting to discuss the $400 million deal put up by Allied Farmers.

"When's your next bloody party in Fiji," one angry investor asked Hanover director Mark Hotchin during heated scenes yesterday.

A number of banks and large finance companies have made changes to deposit rates, with rates generally being pushed up.

Hanover Finance and its part-owner Mark Hotchin are taking a small investor to the High Court over $697.96 owed to the man's teenage daughter.