The Serious Fraud Office has laid more than 100 charges against four former directors of failed lender Five Star Finance, carrying a maximum penalty of seven years apiece.

The man overseeing the creation of a new integrated financial markets regulator hopes, it will help shift savings tied up in housing somewhere else.

Early childhood provider KidiCorp is the focus of a Serious Fraud Office inquiry over $30 million of taxpayer money.

A Wellington man accused of duping at least 30 New Zealanders out of millions of dollars appears to have got away with it.

Dozens of people who invested with an Auckland couple have been told they are unlikely to see their money again.

A banker at the centre of an alleged multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud has been ordered to pay nearly $1.3m in damages to his ex-employer.

The Serious Fraud Office is probing a Blue Chip franchise in the South Island.

White-collar crime in the first six months of this year hit a record high of $72m, says the Fraud Barometer.

Troubled financier Allan Hubbard claims his wife, Jean, was unable to buy groceries worth $23 when he was first put into statutory management.

Thousands of people using the internet to their support for embattled Timaru businessman Allan Hubbard.

Receivers for National Finance 2000 could be ordered to provide its directors with information to help with their defence against Companies Office charges.

People are committing fraud to maintain lavish lifestyles during tough economic times, claims a leading economic crime expert.

Ron Brierly is rumoured to be making a trip to NZ

Disgraced Bridgecorp boss Rod Petricevic and finance director Rob Roest returned to court today on SFO charges.

More than $2.2m has been transferred to Rod Petricevic's family trust from a Bridgecorp-related finance company of which he and his wife were the only directors.