Software company Gentrack has debuted on the stock exchange, with its shares rising 7.5 per cent following the company's midday listing.

Serko shares have fallen below the issue price following the company’s NZX debut this morning.

A rollercoaster morning has seen shares in accounting software firm, Xero, drop by almost ten per cent, before rebounding to a decline of just two per cent.

Fonterra Cooperative Group has tapped the president of its China operations, Kelvin Wickham, to head up the newly created global ingredients

Fonterra has been slapped with a $150,000 fine for breaching disclosure requirements to the NZX over the botulism false alarm last August.

World sharemarkets are in a bull phase and the New Zealand sharemarket is no exception.

The country's next batch of aspiring entrepreneurs have been given a crash course on the realities of business in Auckland this week.

Warehouse boss Mark Powell wasn't afraid to speak candidly about his pay packet with business journalists in Auckland last week.

Companies that want to list and raise money on a new market proposed by the stock exchange won't have to provide investors with prospective financial information.