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Interest.co.nz - RBNZ proposes significant increase in bank capital requirements that will eat up 70% of the sector’s profits over 5 years
- Buffers ensure banks have sufficient capital to get through a serious economic downturn. However, too large a buffer limits banks’ ability to innovate and enhance customer outcomes.
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Stuff.co.nz - Banks asked to take on bigger share of market risk
- New Zealand Bankers’ Association acting chief executive Antony Buick-Constable said: “New Zealand’s banks are currently very well capitalised and among the most stable and secure in the world.”
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Stuff.co.nz - Spy agency’s ‘intrusive requests’ of banks didn’t sufficiently recognise Bill of Rights
- Banks take their obligations to maintain customer privacy and confidentiality very seriously. On rare occasions that needs to be balanced with national security requirements.
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Newshub - Banking survey shows more farmers feel under financial pressure
- Our banks stand by their agri clients in good times and bad.That was particularly evident during the dairy downturn. It makes sense for farmers to have a look at their financial management in better times.
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Stuff.co.nz - 566,378 customers impacted by bank errors, Financial Markets Authority reveals
- NZBA’s acting chief executive Antony Buick-Constable, said: “The report represents an opportunity for the New Zealand banking industry to retain the confidence of our customers and ensure a solid foundation for banking in future. We are ready to take that opportunity.
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Stuff.co.nz - Bosses making bank: Over-sized pay, or fair for a big job?
- “As with most businesses bank CEOs have levels of responsibility ordinary staff members wouldn’t have. In the New Zealand banking industry it includes responsibility for around 25,000 staff, over $13b in shareholders’ capital and over $300b in customer deposits.”
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RNZ - A Battle for Banking
- Antony Buick-Constable of the New Zealand Bankers’ Association says: “Customer demand for innovation suggests that open banking is something we should be looking at, and it is.”
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Stuff.co.nz - Why do Aussies get cheaper mortgage rates than New Zealanders?
- Buick-Constable said about 80 per cent of the Australian market was floating, whereas in New Zealand 80 per cent was fixed.
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