The New Zealand Journal

The New Zealand government has moved to provide a guarantee on wholesale funds in the financial system. The objective is to assist the re-en...

The Minister of Finance, Dr Michael Cullen, says the Crown and New Zealand's largest mortgage lending banks have exchanged letters on th...

The Reserve Bank has agreed to purchase NZ$8.7 billion of residential mortgage-backed securities from the ANZ National and Westpac banks sho...

National Party leader, John Key, has announced that his party is willing to engage in a bi-partisan approach to financial regulation policy ...

In a sloppy exercise in policy formation, the Reserve Bank and the Treasury have belatedly moved to tighten up the deposit insurance regulat...

As expected, the major trading banks have flocked to sign up for the New Zealand government's deposit guarantee scheme that will cover t...

PM Helen Clark has announced the Labour government will now introduce a deposit insurance scheme that will provide coverage for the next two...

Echoing some of the policy changes called for on this blog in recent weeks, the New Zealand Employers & Manufacturers Association (North...

Damn It Feels Good to be a Banksta! The usual suspects show up for a line-up. complete cartoon here .

New Zealand will be the only member country of the OECD area that does not have deposit insurance for bank customers once Australia introduc...