CRM provider Trail has achieved a cybersecurity certification that it hopes will boost its new aggregator group, the Kiwi Adviser Network. 

Michael Reps has been found guilty of fraudulent claims relating to the Financial Service Providers Register and sentenced to community detention and 90 hours' community work.

Westpac's most senior economist is swapping the big four bank for the Treasury.

Sally Lindsay reviews the latest CoreLogic HPI data – could the property market may be heading for a slowdown?

Non-bank lender Pepper Money has hired two new business development managers as it expands in New Zealand.

Westpac economists predict rising mortgage rates will put an end to the NZ housing boom.

Advisers report that it is getting easier to access construction and new build loans, amid growing pressure to increase the supply of new houses.

Houses are as unaffordable as they’ve been at any time in the past 17 years and the worst hit are provincial towns, CoreLogic’s bi-annual New Zealand Housing Affordability Report has found.

A support package has been made available – by industry compliance centre Strategi Group – to advisers whose preparation for regulation change has been impacted by Covid.

Kiwibank has entered the adviser market and has a pilot programme running with two dealer groups.

ASB has increased term deposit interest rates across the board, a sign that rates have begun to rise from historic lows.