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Monday, March 09th 2026
Rising sophisticated cyber attacks aimed at advisers
Advisers are being urged to be on heightened alert after a sharp increase in hard to spot malicious email activity.
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Monday, March 09th 2026
Advisers are being urged to be on heightened alert after a sharp increase in hard to spot malicious email activity.
Saturday, March 07th 2026
AdviceLink was built to support advisers in delivering great advice, right across the industry. Yet there’s still a common perception that it’s just an internal CRM tool for LFG and NZHL—our sister companies. That’s understandable, but it’s no longer accurate.
Wednesday, March 04th 2026
As the first-half results from Kiwibank and ASB Bank suggested, both gained significant mortgage market share through calendar 2025, while New Zealand’s largest bank was the biggest loser.
Tuesday, March 03rd 2026
New brand and diversification for mortgagehq.
Monday, March 02nd 2026
Mortgage lending slumped by a huge 57.1% to $6 billion in January after rising to a record $14.1 billion in December off the back of the major banks’ short-lived 1.5% cashback incentives, the latest Reserve Bank data shows.
Friday, February 27th 2026
The Reserve Bank’s new bank capital rules mean that Kiwibank can lend about $20 billion more in home loans or $7 billion more to businesses through to June 30, 2028 than it would have been able to under the previous capital rules.
Thursday, February 26th 2026
While AI is coming for mortgage advice, the real question is whether the industry is leading it or reacting to it.
Friday, February 20th 2026
Fintech Dosh’s bid to become a bank swiped left by the Reserve Bank blocks banking innovation.
Thursday, February 19th 2026
Mortgage advisers can now use ASB for clients buying a home under the Kāinga Ora First Home Loan scheme.
Thursday, February 19th 2026
The Reserve Bank thinks house prices will rise at a much slower pace during the current recovery than they have in past cycles.
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Wednesday, February 18th 2026
The Reserve Bank left the OCR unchanged today and indicated it may stay "accomodative" for some time.
Wednesday, February 18th 2026
The NZIER monetary policy shadow board says the RBNZ should start raising the OCR in the second half of this year.
Tuesday, February 17th 2026
The Adviser Platform (TAP) is moving away from being a traditional aggregator to opening up its services to anyone in the market.
Monday, February 16th 2026
The head of adviser association, FAMNZ, is hanging up his shingle leaving the New Zealand seven months after the country head resigned.
Thursday, February 12th 2026
OCR expected to be held at 2.25% at first review of the year.
Wednesday, February 11th 2026
ASB Bank continued to accelerate its mortgage lending at above its market share in the six months ended December and managed to lift its profit margin as well.
Wednesday, February 11th 2026
Two-year fixed interest rates surged back into popularity with home owners taking out new mortgages in December.
Monday, February 09th 2026
Australian annuities player, Challenger, has made an offer to acquire listed non-bank lender Pepper Money.
Thursday, February 05th 2026
The mortgage pile for residential investors is rising faster than that for owner-occupiers.
Wednesday, February 04th 2026
Mortgage interest payments falling 17.3% last year kept the cost-of-living hikes for the average household at just 2.2%.
Monday, February 02nd 2026
Dispute resolution scheme Financial Services Complaints says it has received fewer complaints about financial advisers in the second half of last year than in the same time a year earlier, even as overall complaint numbers rose.
| Unity First Home Buyer special | 3.99 |
| SBS FirstHome Combo | 3.99 |
| TSB Special | 4.39 |
| Co-operative Bank - First Home Special | 4.39 |
| ICBC | 4.39 |
| ANZ Special | 4.49 |
| SBS Bank Special | 4.49 |
| Unity Special | 4.49 |
| Westpac Special | 4.49 |
| Kiwibank Special | 4.49 |
| Co-operative Bank - Owner Occ | 4.49 |
| ICBC | 4.59 |
| ANZ Special | 4.69 |
| TSB Special | 4.69 |
| BNZ - Std | 4.69 |
| Wairarapa Building Society | 4.79 |
| Nelson Building Society | 4.87 |
| Westpac Special | 4.89 |
| Co-operative Bank - Owner Occ | 4.89 |
| Kiwibank Special | 4.89 |
| SBS Bank Special | 4.89 |
| Unity Special | 4.89 |
| ICBC | 5.19 |
| Westpac Special | 5.29 |
| TSB Special | 5.29 |
| BNZ - Std | 5.29 |
| SBS Bank Special | 5.69 |
| Co-operative Bank - Owner Occ | 5.69 |
| Kainga Ora | 5.69 |
| ASB Bank | 5.69 |
| AIA - Go Home Loans | 5.69 |
| Kiwibank Special | 5.79 |
| Westpac | 5.89 |
| SBS FirstHome Combo | 3.29 |
| AIA - Back My Build | 3.34 |
| SBS Construction lending for FHB | 3.74 |
| CFML 321 Loans | 3.95 |
| Co-operative Bank - Owner Occ | 4.99 |
| Co-operative Bank - Standard | 4.99 |
| Heartland Bank - Online | 5.30 |
| ICBC | 5.39 |
| Kiwibank - Offset | 5.65 |
| Kiwibank | 5.75 |
| Unity Standard | 5.79 |
