Home Loans - November 15th How to use the NZ home loan rate cuts to your advantage It's an interesting time in the New Zealand home loan market. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has said it is seriously considering pulling back on the minimum 20% deposit requirement for owner occupiers. And, …
Credit Cards - November 7th Public, businesses also need to ‘wake up’ to banking conduct risk Canstar takes a look at some major themes and questions from the 8 November Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) media conference on the latest Monetary Policy Statement. In today's announcement, RBNZ opted to keep …
Home Loans - October 9th KiwiSaver first home withdrawals top $700 million More than 30, 000 KiwiSaver members have withdrawn a total of $723 million in KiwiSaver funds to buy their first home in the past year, according to the just-released Financial Markets Authority (FMA) KiwiSaver report. A total …
Home Loans - September 26th OCR stays put with “welcome signs of inflation returning to midpoint” The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has kept the Official Cash Rate at 1.75% and is sticking to its guns on keeping it there into 2019 and beyond. Governor Adrian Orr released the OCR statement …
Credit Cards - September 25th Reasons to get on the enewsletter mailing list It's all well in good for us to do the hard sell on the Canstar enewsletter. After all, of course we'd love more visitors to the Canstar website. But what you want to know is …
KiwiSaver Funds - September 22nd Which KiwiSaver members are paying almost double average fees? In 2018, Canstar rated and reviewed 119 funds and 20 schemes, across 15 providers, as part of its annual KiwiSaver star ratings. This year, Canstar also introduced an Outstanding Value KiwiSaver Scheme award, to showcase …
KiwiSaver Funds - September 22nd Canstar Outstanding Value KiwiSaver Scheme 2018 revealed Milford KiwiSaver Plan has been named an Outstanding Value KiwiSaver Scheme. We caught up with Troy Swann, Milford Asset Management chief executive, to find out more about how investors can make the most of their …
KiwiSaver Funds - September 22nd KiwiSaver Scheme offers up outstanding value ASB is an Outstanding Value KiwiSaver Scheme winner. So, we caught up with Jonathan Beale, ASB general manager wealth, private banking and wealth & insurance, to find out more about how investors can make the …
Online Banking Accounts - September 19th BNZ’s online banking tools move with the times We caught up with Stephen Bowe, BNZ general manager digital. He shared insights on how online banking can help customers keep track of their savings, and thoughts about where digital banking is heading in the future. What …
Online Banking Accounts - September 19th Kiwis sceptical about sharing bank data In simple terms, open banking is when third party technology companies create apps for people to make payments and to manage their money. The interfaces are called Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The open banking concept is …
