Air New Zealand is dropping BNZ in place of Westpac as its official Airpoints partner.

Janet Yellen wants to be less predictable, if only a little.

Westpac is facing a claim that it made misrepresentations to get a long-standing commercial customer to buy interest rate swaps that lost it $3 million.

A resurgence in property prices means LVR "speed limits" are likely to stay in place, Standard & Poor's says in a report that predicts banks will continue to post strong earnings growth....

Police are hunting a NZ bank executive who left Australia after learning an investigation had been launched into his alleged receiving of kickbacks.

Shopping around for a mortgage could save New Zealanders up to $28,500 over the lifetime of a loan, according to a new survey of home lending.

The NZ dollar extended its gains overnight after the Reserve Bank's better-than-expected outlook for the local economy.

If banks wanted to adopt a theme song for KiwiSaver it would have to be the song from Bonanza.

Retailers are continuing to benefit from the boost to consumers' discretionary incomes from the fall in oil prices over the past year.

Competition is continuing to heat up in the mortgage market, with a new rate dipping below 5 per cent.

The US economy continues to surge back to life, moving into territory which some economists describe as "full employment". However, Americans who are still without a job may disagree.

Construction activity in Australia continued to fall in February as an interest rate cut failed to encourage new orders.

The January OCR review saw a shift in the bank's stance from a tightening bias to neutral.

The Portuguese bank that failed and lost the NZ Super Fund almost $200m breached Central Bank orders by "increasing exposure to its founding family's collapsing business".

Insurance of this kind is not always effective, may be unfair and can lead to risky lending by banks, writes Mary Holm.

The All Blacks have a brand new sponsor to support them in Rugby World Cup year, through the sevens at the 2016 Rio Olympics and all of 2017.

Bitcoin, the poster child for digital currencies, is proving something of a headache for central banks.