US crowdfunding platform Kickstarter - which has helped raise more than $US800 million for creative projects - will be opening its doors to Kiwis in just over four weeks.

An Auckland restaurant with links to Phoenix Forex - a company that sold controversial currency trading software - has been put into liquidation owing almost $5 million.

A Christchurch financial adviser whose clients lost $6 million in Ross Asset Management's collapse has been censured and fined $4000.

Two of New Zealand's top watchdog jobs could end up being held by women.

Directors of failed finance companies are not off the hook yet and the Financial Markets Authority says it is likely to launch criminal proceedings.

An Auckland financial adviser accused of stealing $3 million of investors' money has been charged today.

David Ross had the outward appearance of a successful businessman - he lived in a $2.2 million home, owned expensive paintings, drove a Mercedes, and told clients he holidayed around the world.

Wellington financial adviser David Ross pleads guilty to charges relating to running a Ponzi scheme.

David Ross, the Ponzi-accused former manager of Ross Asset Management appeared in court this morning, but all aspects of the hearing were suppressed.

Three directors of Dominion Finance and North South Finance were all sentenced to at least 10 months' home detention today.

A body with the power to fine financial advisers or recommend they be deregistered will hear its first cases today.

The FMA files civil proceedings against Diligent founder Brian Peter Henry for alleged involvement in the manipulation of company shares.

The FMA has issued a public warning against doing business with a foreign currency exchange company.

New Zealand's leading financial regulator has announced he his stepping down.

David Ross appeared briefly in the Wellington District Court this morning, where hearings were adjourned to August 22.

Three more charges have been laid today against the alleged Ponzi-schemer David Ross.

The High Court hears bankrupt accountant Neill Williams knowingly participated "in the misappropriation of investor funds".

The FMA is preparing to take action against two unnamed KiwiSaver issuers for making misleading statements in their offer documents.

Former Dominion Finance directors Robert Barry Whale and Ann Butler have both been sentenced to terms of home detention in the High Court in Auckland today.