Business owners can now turn to their insurance to cover the cost of an IRD audit.

Squirrel has appointed Venu Chawdrapu as a managing partner for the New Zealand Indian market.

BNZ has announced its KiwiSaver scheme will launch on February 25.
 

TOWER’s former senior commercial manager has been appointed chief financial officer of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.

It will be up to the Government to decide whether any prospective purchaser of Tower’s KiwiSaver business also gets its default status.

The Serious Fraud Office is investigating a former authorised financial adviser.

Kiwi banks recorded their biggest growth in lending since 2009 in the second half of their 2012 financial years.

Stronger financial sector regulation is top of the wishlist of the Reserve Bank Governor.

A compilation of the commentary arising from today’s OCR announcement.

The Reserve Bank's official statement on the OCR.