David McLean, the newly appointed boss of Westpac New Zealand, says he has landed his "dream job".

New Westpac boss Brian Hartzer has stamped his authority in his first day as chief executive of the Australian banking group.

As we congratulate ourselves on the buoyancy of our rock star economy, we need to appreciate that we are firmly locked into the global economy, writes Peter Lyons.

Banks are tipped to drop interest rates to new lows as competition to attract house hunters and homeowners escalates into an all-out mortgage war.

The Reserve Bank has explicitly acknowledged its next interest rate move could be either up or down, thereby giving the financial markets a green light to price in a cut.

The liquidators of a New Zealand bitcoin trading platform will soon be able to make a claim for $23 million worth of the digital currency that was being held with a now-bankrupt Japanese exchange.

NZIER's monetary policy shadow board believes the Reserve Bank should leave the official cash rate on hold at 3.5 per cent tomorrow but that the next best option would be a cut.

New Zealand's super-rich were found liable for an extra $77 million of tax in the last financial year.

The liquidators of fraudster Jacqui Bradley's failed business are mulling whether to try to claw back $2 million from eight investors who were paid out before her Ponzi scheme folded.

National Australia Bank customers seeking to reclaim "unfairly charged" exception fees have to register today.

The prospect of further rises in the Reserve Bank's official cash rate has disappeared over the horizon.

An Auckland currency brokerage that was in breach of its reporting requirements and shut down last week after an unexpected surge in the Swiss franc never considered it would not get a new licence....

Global Brokers NZ has so far returned more than half of its clients' funds, says the Financial Markets Authority.

Three more banks have cut interest rates in a fight to attract customers. But are some customers being unfairly stung by refinancing fees?

Banks will need to "reinvent themselves" if they want to keep increasing shareholder returns, according to a new report.

KiwiSavers collectively had more than $21 billion in their accounts. Those are some pretty big numbers, so what do fees mean for individual KiwiSaver balances?

Financial markets will this week find whether the Swiss National Bank's fears were well-founded when the European Central Bank announces its plan to revive economic growth.

A natural outcome of a market economy must be inequality of incomes. They are a necessary and desirable outcome, writes Peter Lyons.

Mega-miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto are expected to announce more record iron ore production this week despite the commodity's price dive.

The European Central Bank is set to unveil a programme of mass bond buying next week to save the eurozone from deflation.

Keeping up with the progress of the global economy is becoming a fiendishly complex sport, writes Liam Dann.

Global fallout from the shock decision by Switzerland's move to remove the cap on the franc has widened with more traders and hedge funds closing or facing escalating losses.

It's probably your biggest bill but too few people realise how much money they could save if they put some thought into managing their mortgage.