The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has issued a formal warning to an individual for conduct that was likely to have amounted to market manipulation.

NZX have today gone live with their new regulatory agency, signalling the formal separation of the exchange’s commercial and regulatory wings.

Residential property development loans have fallen by 18% year-on-year, according to Reserve Bank data, with advisers calling for changes to fix the house-building crisis.

Caring about customers is a business imperative as well as an ethical one for insurers, argues Liz Zhu.

Mortgage advisers are strongly opposed to any extension of the bright-line test, as speculation mounts that the government will change the law.

SHARE chief executive Tony Dench says his firm has further growth ambitions after sealing the takeover of Newpark Group.

Renewable electricity stocks pushed the New Zealand sharemarket higher as global investors battled to buy shares in relatively scarce clean energy generators such as Meridian Energy.

Advisers have been slow to embrace Partners Life's customer outcome matrix, but numbers are growing.

Covid-19 blamed as Fidelity Life drop the app from their client offerings.

NZX Wealth Technologies is set to top $7 billion funds under administration this year after onboarding of Hobson Wealth Partners.

The seminars focused on getting the industry primed for key regulation changes bearing down in the new year will continue across the country next year.

Partnership between a large travel firm, a financial technology business and MSD could bring nearly 200 new advisers into the industry.