Macquarie tapped to find $NZ500m Kiwibank backer
Investment bank Macquarie Capital is understood to have won the Kiwibank mandate to find a backer for the New Zealand ­lender ...
Fed Chair Powell signals possible tweaks to 'dot plot' rate-path forecasts
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday signaled potential changes for the Fed's closely watched "dot plot" ...
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Adrian Orr’s legacy and Nicola Willis’s dilemma
Martien Lubberink says in bank regulation, some problems never heal. And the current vacuum of credible RBNZ leadership ...
Billions in cash to be processed at huge new Fed facility in suburban N.J.
The new Federal Reserve site will employ its own federal law enforcement officers to protect the facility filled with money.
New Zealand’s Willis Seeks Advice on Changing Bank Capital Rules
In 2019, the RBNZ said it would require banks to increase capital to better withstand economic shocks, with the nation’s largest lenders given seven years to raise their high-quality Tier-1 capital to ...
New Zealand Parliament Probes Banks on RBNZ Capital Rules
New Zealand bankers have been quizzed by a parliamentary select committee on how much the Reserve Bank’s capital requirements ...
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Ben Bernanke: RBNZ must offer alternative forecasts to preserve credibility
Nobel Prize winner Ben Bernanke believes central banks should provide alternative economic forecasts and explain how they ...
Interest-Rate Gradualism ‘No Longer Valid,’ BOE’s Mann Says
Gradual interest-rate moves no longer send clear signals to volatile financial markets and larger shifts are now needed to ...
Nicola Willis gets advice on overriding Reserve Bank’s bank capital rules championed by Adrian Orr
Finance Minister Nicola Willis is receiving advice on how she can compel the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) to change the ...
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New Zealand’s housing market crashes
Statistics New Zealand released data on Building Work Put in Place, which showed that residential construction plunged by 4.9 ...
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Lutnick: Tariff reprieve likely to include all USMCA products
Today I will focus my remarks on what it is we need to anchor, how to measure whether the anchor is holding, and what a central bank needs to do as domestic economies face more turbulent waters – that ...