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TSB head says Auckland will get more branches

Homegrown disadvantage for banks

For the past three years Kiwibank has been voted New Zealand's Most Trusted Bank in the annual Reader's Digest poll.

Warning on Strategic offer

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Insider trading suspicions in third of all UK takeovers

<i>Inside Money:</i> Consumer backing the big end of town

Is Consumer backing the big end of town in the debate over financial advisor legislation?

Wrightson combines business divisions

South Canterbury to hold meetings

The man who lends cash to people banks won't touch

Meet microfinance pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, banker to the world's poor.

NZX value traded 7pc up on last year

NZX keen to get new bank on board

A proposal to launch a new listed New Zealand bank has been welcomed by the market and the stock exchange operator.

George Kerr has hand in heartland bank deal

Pyne Gould major shareholder George Kerr is thought to have had a strong hand in the deal to merge Marac with CBS and the Sthn Cross Building Society.

NZ-owned bank planned for 'heartland

Meltdown Part II: Return of the jitters

'Heartland' bank launched from Sth Island merger

The banking operations of Pyne Gould, Southern Cross Building Society and the Canterbury Building Society are merging.

Dorchester posts annual loss of $19.1M

Dorchester Pacific, seeking to raise $10 million to exit its moratorium, has reported a full-year loss of $19.1 million.

CBS, Southern Cross join Govt guarantee scheme

<i>Fran O'Sullivan</i>: Govt dancing way to privatisation