The Financial Markets Authority has issued a stop order for the first time, prohibiting offering or issuing debt securities.

It's a 60-year low as banks vie to undercut each other.

Union chief says he received a tip that hundreds of Westpac staff face losing their jobs.

A firm directed by Luigi Wewege is back on the Financial Service Providers Register while it appeals being kicked off.

The dollar fell after signs of weaker Chinese manufacturing activity dented demand for commodity currencies.

Josh Daniell says he doesn't have any trouble being taken seriously as a millennial running a finance business.

The New Zealand dollar held onto some of its gain after the Reserve Bank yesterday cut the benchmark interest rate.

Credit card debt is considered unsecured debt unlike your mortgage where a bank can sell your house if you fail to make payments.

The New Zealand dollar has fallen ahead of the Reserve Bank's expected interest rate cut this morning.

The dollar advanced as traders who had bet on the currency's decline took profits ahead of the tomorrow's interest rate decision.

New Zealand's financial regulator is refusing to reveal exactly what it spent investigating Milford Asset Management.

The banks has been named bank of the year for everyday banking by consumer organisation Canstar.

An Auckland real estate agent says "some groups of buyers" are trying to beat the Government's new restrictions on foreign property purchases due in October.

The NZ dollar has been trading around 65 US cents, which the Prime Minister has previously called the "Goldilocks" level.

The best thing you can do in business is to back yourself, says Spark's Digital First general manager Anna Curzon.

The rebuild has represented a large, if tragic, boost to demand, equivalent to nearly a fifth of a year's output for the New Zealand economy.

In Deborah Battell's first year as Banking Ombudsman there were 1888 formal complaints - a 99 per cent rise.

The dollar has since consolidated after a slump in dairy prices and benign inflation stoked expectations of interest rate cuts.

Reserve Bank may take interest rates to a new record low by October.

Former Commonwealth Bank worker Jon Waldron allegedly received over $2 million for awarding contracts to a US firm.

The dollar plummeted after whole milk powder fell more than expected in the GlobalDairyTrade auction overnight.

The dollar gained as an unexpected decline in US retail sales raised speculation of a delayed increase in US interest rates.

Things are still looking healthy for New Zealand's banks, despite a fall in lending margins at the start of this year.

What to do when things go wrong between you and your bank.

The NZ dollar weakened as Greek agreement turned investor attention to US interest rate hikes, supporting greenback.

All 74 authorised financial advisers and all who applied for a licence in the past year received a regulatory rubber stamp.

Mortgage rates have dropped again. SBS Bank is offering a 4.85 per cent rate for an 18-month term - the lowest deal around.

The lower kiwi will benefit exporters such as Delegat which counts the US as its largest market.

The dollar weakened as Eurozone leaders stepped up their demands for Greece reforms at meetings over the weekend.