Briefs: Local NZ banks rated the best for service, Macquarie CEO to chair Screen Australia, Westpac

Consumer NZ's latest bank survey found local banks achieved the highest customer satisfaction ratings. Overall, 89 per cent of Consumer members rated their bank's service as good or very good. The Co-operative Bank and TSB both achieved scores of 99 per cent. SBS and Kiwibank were close behind with scores of 98 per cent and 96 per cent respectively. The larger banks were weaker on their overall service ratings, with ANZ remaining the bottom-ranked bank on 87 per cent.
Macquarie Bank chief executive Nicholas Moore has been named the new chairman of Screen Australia. The Australian reported that the agency has been without a chairman since June last year, when Glen Boreham ended his term. The Minister for the Arts, Senator George Brandis, confirmed the appointment of Mr Moore for a three-year term yesterday, saying: "With over twenty years of experience in leadership roles in financial services, infrastructure and the media, Mr Moore will bring an exceptional set of skills to the Screen Australia Board."
Westpac will stop remittance services to Somalia on March 31, news service Somali Current reports. Westpac said in a statement: "This is not decision we have taken lightly and was made in the context of the changing international and domestic regulatory landscape and our own compliance requirement." Somalis in Australia said people back home would be badly affected by the closure of the remittance service, as there would be no remittance agent left to transfer money home.