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Rabobank New Zealand's share capital increased sharply in the period ended September 2010, after the bank received a fresh injection of NZ$300 million from Rabobank International in August. read more

Building Society Holdings, the three-way merger of a group of Christchurch-based financiers, is moving towards its planned NZX listing and continues to seek a banking licence. read more

Pepper Australia is using the last real working days of 2010 to refinance a A$263 million pool of home loans in its first mortgage-backed securities deal of the year. The financing is noteworthy as.. read more

Regional banks have a sufficient capital buffer to absorb the impact from the alternative capital treatment for securitisation outlined by APRA last week, Moody's says in a new report.  read more

Westpac New Zealand increased its target tier one capital ratio and the minimum total regulatory capital ratio from October, bank disclosure documents show. read more

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand left the official cash rate unchanged at 3.0 per cent, but delivered an emphatic outlook on interest rates. read more

Bank provisions may be out of step with trends in their impaired assets. Dud loans at banks increased 30 per cent in 2010. Yet provisions increased by only 11 per cent. read more

ANZ aims to organise more Asian funding for institutional customers as funding from traditional markets in the Northern Hemisphere markets get more expensive. read more

A research paper issued by the New Zealand Treasury is the latest addition to the current debate on  increasing savings in the country to reduce net foreign liabilities position and lifting produ.. read more

Kiwibank's gross impaired assets jumped nearly 38 per cent in the three-month period to September 2010, as corporate impaired loans more than doubled and residential mortgages saw more impairment. read more