Media

Here you’ll find our media releases and opinions about banking in New Zealand, along with our media appearances.

Media Releases

Loan relief offered for small businesses

- New Zealand’s retail banks are offering a range of relief options to small business customers financially affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, including interest-only loan repayments or temporarily deferring all loan repayments in some cases. “There are many small businesses that are being severely impacted by Covid-19. Quite a few of them are sole traders. They... Read more »
Media Appearances

NBR - Firms urged to go back to banks for loans

- “The fact that banks have lent $5.5b to businesses since we went into lockdown clearly shows they’re lending where they can. They still need to be responsible lenders and not everyone looking for a loan will meet the lending criteria,” Beaumont said. None of that $5.5b loaned by banks since March 26 forms part of the... Read more »
Media Appearances

NZ Herald - Covid 19 Coronavirus: Banks to charge as little as 0.8% on govt-backed business loans

- Data released by the New Zealand Bankers’ Association yesterday showed that since the lockdown began on March 25, the nation’s trading banks had provided 13,559 businesses with new loans totalling $5.5 billion, moved to either interest only or reduced principal repayments and interest on $17.4 billion of existing loans to 13,549 businesses, and that a... Read more »
Media Appearances

NZ Herald - Banks made $7.5b in new loans during lockdown

- New Zealand’s trading banks have provided businesses and consumers $7.5 billion in new loans since the country went into lockdown, with 13,559 business customers lent $5.5 billion and the balance going to 21,772 consumers.