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ANZ NZ executive reappointed to old job (opens the original)
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ANZ New Zealand is reappointing Michael Bullock to his old role at the bank of Chief Operating Officer (COO). The bank announced on Thursday Bullock, ANZ's Chief Information Officer for New Zealand and the Pacific since 2020, is being appointed to the "newly established" role of COO, from November 2, assuming the standard requirement of no Reserve Bank objection to the appointment. Bullock is, however, being reappointed to his old job as he was previously ANZ NZ's COO between 2015 and 2020 after
Financial hardship up 40% over three years (opens the original)
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Accounts in financial hardship have surged 40% over the three years to September, data from credit bureau Centrix shows, with personal loan hardship volumes more than doubling. Figures in Centrix's September Credit Indicator show 14,521 financial hardship cases, a rise of 4,158, or 40%, since September 2023. Personal loans in financial hardship surged 1851, or 119%, to 3,411 over the three year period. Credit cards customers in financial hardship increased 1670, or 53%, to 4,797. And financial h
Gap between NZ & Aussie benchmark interest rates set to widen (opens the original)
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On Tuesday the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is expected to lift its cash rate 25 basis points to 4.60%, taking it a whopping 185 basis points above the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's Official Cash Rate (OCR). As the chart below shows, such a chasm between the two countries' benchmark interest rates doesn't happen too often. I previously wrote about a major gap between the RBA and RBNZ rates in April 2022. However, back then, the shoe was on the other foot. The RBNZ had the OCR at 1.50%, a full
Kiwibank borrowing $750 million in its biggest ever bond issue (opens the original)
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Kiwibank is borrowing $750 million through a five-year bond issue, which is the biggest the bank has done to date. The issue of unsecured, unsubordinated fixed rate medium term notes attracted a final orderbook of more than $965 million, with the issue size set at $750 million. This comes after Kiwibank said it was seeking up to $100 million, with unlimited oversubscriptions at its own discretion. An interest rate of 5.216% per annum has been set, which is a 0.75% margin over the reference rate,
Payments NZ governance review 'not about validating the status quo' (opens the original)
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Payments NZ has hired PwC to review its role, mandate and governance arrangements. This follows the Government accepting a recommendation from the Finance and Expenditure Committee's inquiry into banking competition that the bank-owned Payments NZ should improve its governance structure to better support new entrants like fintechs. Formed in 2010 and owned by eight banks, Payments NZ was primarily designed as a standards and rule-making body for clearing systems. However, it also has a role in c
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