Trustees Executors chief executive Ryan Bessemer has announced two appointments to the executive team.

HSBC is offering a 3.85% Special rate for an 18-month fixed home loan for both owner occupiers and investors, its fifth sub-4%. home loan since February 2016 and the only sub-4% mortgage currently being offered in the New Zealand market.

From IDS to Strategi ... now to Evergreen Life.

Regulators have not yet found evidence of the sort of widespread, systemic issues that would warrant a Royal Commission of Inquiry into New Zealand's financial services sector - but they are warning that could change.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the Financial Markets Authority have not seen “evidence of widespread, systemic issues” to warrant an inquiry into the country's financial services industry, the two regulators said in a statement today.

Some banks have not yet begun to fully embed conduct risk, governance or oversight into their operations, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) and the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) say.

ANZ has agreed to sell OnePath Life NZ for $700 million. What does it mean for advisers?

Commerce Minister Kris Faafoi says there has been no evidence of systemic problems in financial services in this country but it is appropriate that regulators review the sector.

SBS Bank chief executive Shaun Drylie explains the banks latest profit result, what it's doing with mortgage advisers and his thoughts on the current state of the housing market.

[UPDATED] New Zealand's life insurers are now being asked to show what they are doing to identify issues of misconduct within their organisations.