Five years after the global financial crisis, risk aversion remains a dominant feature of the financial markets.

We need to recognise our vulnerability in the global economy, writes Peter Lyons. The Reserve Bank should be applauded for trying to bring us to our senses.

Facial recognition software used to identify how people feel about money is being described as an overwhelming success by the bank that launched it.

Supermarkets and service providers could be caught up in regulations designed to prevent another finance company collapse if Reserve Bank recommendations are followed through.

Ann Butler's $6.8m mansion is so big that probation staff were unsure if the whole house could be electronically monitored while she's on home detention.

An overhaul of capital markets law is expected to open the door for out-of-pocket investors to launch big civil cases against those involved with misleading offers.

The Commerce Commission said this morning it will not be investigating Auckland-based company Phoenix Forex.

A former financial adviser is appealing for investors to come forward to help set up an online database to help compare the performance of investment advisers.

An Auckland businessman who admitted running a business while bankrupt also has a senior role in a foreign exchange trading scheme the FMA has warned the public about.

Exposure has grown since Asian financial crisis of 1997, Institute of Economic Research warns.

Finance companies could make a comeback in the wake of the Reserve Bank's clampdown on low deposit lending by banks.

Former South Canterbury Finance chief executive Lachie John McLeod is to stand trial on five fraud charges in relation to the failure of the company.

Changes to regulations about financial statements will be welcome news for shareholders but somewhat double-edged for registered charities.

If National, Labour and the Greens all agree on a bill, you know it's going to be a big one.

Companies whose activities fall within the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act have been given their marching orders.

Belgrave Finance director Stephen Smith has been sentenced to four years in jail.

The Serious Fraud Office wants tougher penalties for people found guilty of corruption in the private sector.

The chief executive of Kim Dotcom's latest start-up, the boss of the Financial Markets Authority, a former police detective and a Buddhist nun are at a conference beginning in Auckland today.

"This time it's different" - are usually the four most dangerous words in financial markets.

The once-troubled finance company Dorchester Pacific says it will resume dividend payments this year for the first time since 2007.