Westpac has made three changes to its home loan rates including a match to ANZ's new one-year offer.

Credit rating agency Fitch has affirmed the AA- ratings of ANZ, ASB BNZ and Westpac.

Mint Asst Management has made a new appointment to its board.

Three directors of the failed finance company Capital + Merchant Finance have been sentenced at the Auckland High Court following action taken by the Financial Markets Authority.

nib has announced the appointment of Alan Clarke as chairman of Tower Medical Insurance.

BNZ' has appointed a new head of Wealth Management and its Private Bank a month after it launched its KiwiSaver scheme.

The Reserve Bank has left the official cash rate unchanged at 2.5% and expects it to stay that way at least until the end of the year.

The following is the Reserve Bank's latest Official Cash Rate announcement.

The Minister of Commerce has announced Diane Maxwell will act as interim Retirement Commissioner for three months until the end of June, on secondment from the Financial Markets Authority.

National Finance 2000 director Anthony Banbrook has today been sentenced to eight and a half months’ home detention and ordered to pay $75,000 in reparations in a prosecution taken by the Financial Markets Authority.

People with recent overseas criminal convictions will not be able to register as financial services providers, under changes announced today.