News & Media 2022

8 September 2022

Rebuilding financial wellbeing, one fami...
As BNZ’s Head of Customer Care, Frances Ronowicz gets to see the positive effects BNZ’s...

7 September 2022

Govt declines to free up emergency lendi...
Despite urgent attempts to fix the Credit Contracts Act, banks say they are constrained in providing assistance such as...

31 August 2022

New insights report: Economic Harm Suppo...
Our new interim report provides a brief insight into the issues we have observed in...

24 August 2022

Banks ‘need to know how to deal wi...
Banks and other lenders need to be given clear guidelines on how they should deal...

8 August 2022

Diana Clement: The tell-tale signs of fi...
Opinion: Family violence often focuses on physical acts. What's often not discussed is financial or...

5 August 2022

Toxic boyfriend used my money for drugs ...
It started as the stuff of dreams.Flowers were delivered, romantic dinner dates beckoned, and he...

2 August 2022

Don’t sabotage your money conversa...
OPINION: Withdrawing, blaming, invalidating, escalating and catastrophising; there are many ways people sabotage money conversations at...

25 July 2022

Diana Clement: Are you in a financial cr...
Opinion: The pandemic and now inflation have hit hard for some Kiwis. Unfortunately, financial distress...

25 July 2022

Finance company agrees to halve debt of ...
An Auckland finance company’s decision not to pursue a woman for the whole of a...

18 July 2022

Podcast: Why is talking about money so h...
What stops us from having healthy conversations about money? Why is it important to have...

12 July 2022

Nine To Noon: Money expert Liz Koh...
When two people get together, they often have very different attitudes to money, Koh tells...

8 July 2022

Five small changes you make to help save...
By making a few small changes, you can make an impact and start having a...