The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has lifted the Official Cash Rate (OCR) from 0.25% in October 2021 to 3?% in Oct 2022. It's raising rates to curb inflation (rising prices).
NZ Media Releases
New Zealanders view their financial wellbeing with a little more wariness amid current economic uncertainty,
NZ Consumer
ANZ's Financial Wellbeing Indicator is the lowest we’ve seen but a lot of people are in good shape to get through.
NZ Consumer
ANZ’s Head of Responsible Investment Helen Skinner recently sat down with Constable Bryan Ward for his Coppuccino podcast. They talked about a wide range of issues related to money and investing.
NZ Consumer
Why investing can be a bit like driving.
NZ Consumer
ANZ is encouraging the holders of Bonus Bonds to contact it to arrange repayment, or to donate their money to the Cancer Society.
NZ Media Releases
ANZ Bank New Zealand has launched a low-interest home loan rate for customers wanting to increase the energy efficiency of their home.
NZ Consumer
Even in times of uncertainty, it’s important we stay the course. That is reflected in data from ANZ Investments' KiwiSaver members.
NZ Consumer
Interest rates are on the rise for the first time since 2014. For many, this is the first time they will have experienced rising home loan rates.
NZ Consumer
Many of us start the new year with a promise to get our finances into shape. Here are some tips on how to do it.
NZ Business
The $680 million injected into the NZ economy through the winding down of the Bonus Bonds scheme is an opportunity for investors to consider investing in the capital markets.
NZ Business
Many will remember 2021 as a year of tremendous uncertainty and personal sacrifice, lived in the looming and ever-present shadow of Covid-19 - but it was also a year of opportunity, generosity, wisdom, and hope.
NZ Consumer
Professor Elaine Kempson explains the drivers of financial wellbeing.
ANZ’s latest Financial Wellbeing survey of adults in New Zealand reflects new ways of understanding and measuring financial wellbeing.
NZ Consumer
Police are warning people about a sophisticated scam that allows fraudsters to hack into devices connected to home Wi-Fi networks.
NZ Consumer
The number of scams reported to ANZ by its customers, or identified by the bank’s systems, increased by 91% in the year to the end of September 2021, compared to the previous twelve months.
NZ Consumer
The law around lending money to consumers in New Zealand will change on December 1, and customers may find the process takes longer and is more involved.
NZ Consumer
Interest rates are rising, but still very low by historic standards. So home loan customers should consider paying off as much debt as they can.
NZ Consumer
To support the UN International Day of Older Persons ANZ is urging everyone to offer older family or friends help with technology.
NZ Consumer
A number of ANZ branches will re-open with limited hours this week, with some around the country already stepping in help vulnerable customers.
NZ Consumer
Ben Kelleher, ANZ’s Managing Director of Personal Banking, explains why there has never been a better time to get on top of your home loan.
NZ Business
With the first tourists returning to the Cook Islands this week after 14 months of Covid-19 travel restrictions, local businesses are cautiously optimistic.
NZ Consumer
The Government has announced a reduced number of KiwiSaver default providers.
ANZ’s latest Property Focus suggests that while the New Zealand housing market remained hot in March, there are tentative signs of cooling.
NZ Consumer
The number of ANZ mortgage customers making principal and interest repayments is almost back to where it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.
NZ Consumer
The use of voice identification by ANZ customers has leapt by 60% in the past year; reflecting an acceleration in adoption of the security technology.
NZ Consumer
ANZ has found New Zealanders’ overall financial wellbeing has improved since the arrival of the pandemic.
NZ Consumer
ANZ will extend its online remittance fee waiver campaign in the Pacific until September 2021, allowing even more people to send much-needed money home to the islands without paying a transfer fee.
NZ Consumer
On 31 March the Government’s home loan deferral scheme - introduced to help home owners through the Covid-19 pandemic and economic uncertainty - comes to an end.
NZ Consumer
New Zealanders are swapping credit cards for debits cards, according to data in the November 2020 ANZ Financial Wellbeing Report.
NZ Community
Auckland’s return to lockdown is a reminder of the essential role technology plays in our lives and the importance of being tech savvy.
NZ Consumer
Black Friday and Cyber Monday spending has boosted ANZ's card spending figures for November.
NZ Insights
With the OCR near zero, the RBNZ has had to work with a new bag of tricks since the COVID-19 crisis hit. This explainer make sense of how these tools work and affect the economy.
NZ Consumer
ANZ's credit and debit card spending figures for October show some retail sectors are doing well well and others are struggling.
NZ Consumer
Leading architect and Grand Designs NZ host Chris Moller has called for more women to enter the construction sector, and for NZ to massively scale up the pre-fabrication of homes.
NZ Consumer
In the first month since introduction of the fee waiver, ANZ customers made more than 8,000 transfers, totaling almost NZ$15m.
NZ Consumer
The story of how fraudsters scammed their way into an elderly woman's bank account.
NZ Consumer
Partnered with ANZ, MoneyTalks sees demand for financial mentoring almost double since last year.
NZ Consumer
The housing market is riding high, with income support having provided a significant cushion, alongside a boost from lower mortgage rates.
NZ Consumer
In this webinar ANZ experts provide key insights and explain how you can get the most from your KiwiSaver account.
NZ Consumer
The housing market and new mortgage lending are bright spots in an economy otherwise facing an enormous amount of uncertainty.
NZ Consumer
ANZ has seen the number of home loans on repayment deferral decline by just over 30% to around 14,800, with fewer customers now struggling to make home loans repayments.
NZ Consumer
Sending money home to friends and family in eleven Pacific countries will be cheaper for ANZ customers from today, after ANZ announced the temporary waiver of its $7 international money transfer fee for online foreign currency payments made from Australia and New Zealand.
NZ Consumer
When it comes to picking the right KiwiSaver fund, ANZ believes it is important to focus on your long-term savings goals and ignore the day-to-day noise.
NZ Media Releases
ANZ Investment Services (NZ) will stop accepting new investment into the Bonus Bonds Scheme as low interest rates continue to reduce the prize pool.
NZ Consumer
Lower mortgage rates are providing an important cushion to the economy, reducing the blow to both house prices and incomes. But it won’t solve Zealand’s housing affordability problem; that requires a hard look at structural factors.
NZ Consumer
KiwiSaver might sound like a savings account but it’s quite different. Find out why and what else you need to know.
NZ Consumer
ANZ’s Chief Financial Officer Stewart Taylor explains how negative interest rates might work.
NZ Business
“Jamie’s been an amazing tool for us over the last few months,” says ANZ NZ’s Chief Information Officer, Mike Bullock.
NZ Consumer
Many KiwiSaver members will get a glimpse into their possible future when they open their annual statements this month. For the first time annual statements will contain an estimate of whether members may be on track for a comfortable retirement.
NZ Business
Call data from New Zealand’s largest bank suggests Kiwis in lockdown settled into some new routines: we appear to have been slower in the morning, glued to the 6pm TV news and the government’s big COVID-19 announcements, and used digital tools more than ever.
NZ Business
After three weeks of New Zealand’s COVID-19 lockdown, with the Easter break behind us, and the possibility of some workplaces could soon re-open, this week there's been a drop in the number of customer seeking help from ANZ.
NZ Business
Two weeks into the national COVID-19 lockdown tens of thousands of Kiwis are continuing to face challenges, with many seeking financial help, including business owners who are having to re-think how they operate and often make some tough decisions.
NZ Business
With 90 percent of our contact centre team now working on secure systems from home, our teams have been sharing tips on how best to make it work.
NZ Consumer
New Zealand's first full week in lockdown has been a tough time for many, with thousands of Kiwis facing challenges in their personal lives and having to make some hard decisions on how they can continue to run their businesses.
NZ Consumer
Over recent weeks the financial markets have endured a period of increased volatility as the economic and social impact of COVID-19 has worsened. ANZ Head of Wealth & Private Bank Craig Mulholland answers some questions about KiwSaver.
NZ Business
It's been a week of huge change in the lives of all New Zealanders. ANZ New Zealand too has had to alter the way it delivers its services to customers. Here are some of things we are proud to have achieved in the last week.
NZ Consumer
ANZ NZ’s Chief Financial Officer Stewart Taylor answers customer questions about bank's COVID-19 pandemic measures.
NZ Consumer
As the Lotto jackpot climbs into the tens of millions, you could be excused for asking yourself “what if?” and “how would a win like that change my life?’’ Here are some tips we give customers who find themselves winning a significant sum.
Customers with open or closed home loans or personal loans consumer credit contracts that were affected by a loan calculator problem in 2015 and 2016, may be receiving a further payment related to an agreement with the Commerce Commission.
NZ Consumer
The number of money mule cases identified increased 69% to 842 cases in the year to October 2019, according to numbers from ANZ.
NZ Consumer
Less than 10 years after its launch, ANZ’s home-grown goMoney mobile banking app has reached one million active users.
NZ Consumer
A smart sheep, whose horns unfurl and nose turns blue when a room is cold and damp, is helping students at an Auckland school understand the benefits of healthy homes.
New Zealand
ANZ today announced it will lower the interest rates on its Floating and Flexible home loans by 0.50%, from 5.69% to 5.19% following today’s 0.50% Official Cash Rate cut.
NZ Consumer
ANZ today announced a Healthy Home Loan Package to Kiwis who build or upgrade their houses to good sustainable standards.
NZ Consumer
Housing New Zealand (HNZ) has issued a $NZ500 million Sustainability Bond to help fund investment in new or upgraded sustainable social housing.
Growth in lending for new house builds is at a four-year high, outstripping growth for new loans for existing houses according to the latest figures released by ANZ, New Zealand’s largest home lender.
NZ Consumer
ANZ New Zealand’s digital assistant Jamie has been so successful in her first 100 days the bank is going to extend her pilot, increase her abilities and include the use of common
Te Reo Māori words in her vocabulary.
Media
KiwiSaver is fast becoming an important part of the home buying mix with the number of ANZ KiwiSaver members making a first home withdrawal increasing almost five-fold over the past six years.
Media
New Zealand’s largest KiwiSaver scheme provider has warned that hundreds of thousands of KiwiSaver members could be in the wrong type of fund for their age and risk profile.
NZ Community
ANZ Bank New Zealand has announced $100 million in interest-free loans to help Kiwis insulate their homes.
Every year, thousands of Kiwi children get sick from poorly built housing and it’s time to do something about it, says ANZ NZ CEO.