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Reserve Bank Responds To Climate Consultations
Thursday, 2 December 2021, 10:17 am | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
To better understand and help mitigate financial risks of climate change, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua has made submissions to two climate-related consultations. The External Reporting Board (XRB) is seeking feedback on the Governance ... More >>
Reserve Bank Outlines Options For Cash System Reform
Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 2:02 pm | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand - Te Pūtea Matua is seeking feedback on issues facing the cash system and options to keep Aotearoa’s cash system ‘fit for purpose’. Options include consolidating public and private cash sector functions into one or ... More >>
Views Sought On Debt Servicing Restrictions Framework
Tuesday, 23 November 2021, 9:57 am | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua – is seeking feedback on the merits and design features of debt serviceability restrictions (DSRs) on residential mortgage lending. “We are not proposing to implement debt serviceability restrictions ... More >>
RBNZ Chief Economist And MPC Member Departing After 25 Years
Monday, 15 November 2021, 12:58 pm | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
The Reserve Bank’s Head of Economics and Chief Economist, Yuong Ha, who is also an inaugural member of the Monetary Policy Committee will leave next year after 25 years with RBNZ. Mr Ha, who has been with the RBNZ since 1997, and is an internal ... More >>
Housing Matters For Financial Stability Risks
Tuesday, 2 November 2021, 9:44 am | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
The unsustainable level of house prices poses monetary and financial stability challenges, Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua - Governor Adrian Orr says in a speech published today to the Property Council of New Zealand Retail Conference. “It will ... More >>
Review Of Overseas Bank Branches Underway
Wednesday, 20 October 2021, 10:03 am | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua is reviewing its policy for branches of overseas banks to keep pace with the evolving global regulatory environment. The objective of the review is to create a simple, coherent and transparent policy ... More >>
Robust Balance Sheets Yield Faster Economic Recovery
Thursday, 14 October 2021, 1:30 pm | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Stronger balance sheets for households, businesses, financial institutions and the government going into the pandemic contributed towards maintaining a sound financial system and yielding a faster economic recovery than following previous deep recessions, ... More >>
Monetary Policy Announcement And Financial Stability Report Dates For 2022/23
Monday, 12 July 2021, 9:09 am | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand - Te Pūtea Matua today announced the 2022 and early 2023 dates for releasing its quarterly Monetary Policy Statement (MPS), Monetary Policy Review (MPR) decisions and the six-monthly Financial Stability Report. The ... More >>
Relationship Charter 2021 Survey Results
Thursday, 8 July 2021, 12:00 pm | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua launched the Relationship Charter in 2018 as a step towards achieving its aspiration to build the best possible ‘regulated-regulated’ relationships. The Charter commits the Reserve Bank and the financial sector to a ... More >>
A Strategic View Of Te Pūtea Matua’s Balance Sheet
Wednesday, 2 June 2021, 10:46 am | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Efforts to help reduce interest rates and restore confidence in financial markets have seen Te Pūtea Matua’s balance sheet almost triple in size, Reserve Bank Head of Financial Markets Vanessa Rayner says. In a speech published today, Ms Rayner ... More >>
Reserve Bank Taking Action To Respond To Data Breach Reports
Monday, 31 May 2021, 2:03 pm | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua – has released the findings of independent reports on an illegal data breach and its handling of sensitive information. “The Bank accepts the findings and has, and will continue to, implement the recommendations,” ... More >>
Reserve Bank Files High Court Action Against TSB Bank
Thursday, 27 May 2021, 12:53 pm | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand - Te Pūtea Matua has today filed a statement of claim in the High Court against TSB Bank Limited for acknowledged breaches of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Act 2009. The ... More >>
Monetary Support Continued
Wednesday, 26 May 2021, 1:55 pm | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Tēnā koutou katoa, The Monetary Policy Committee agreed to maintain the current stimulatory level of monetary settings in order to meet its consumer price inflation and employment objectives. The Committee will keep the Official Cash Rate (OCR) at ... More >>
New Law Reforms The Regulation Of Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs)
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 2:37 pm | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
New laws to regulate and supervise payment and settlement systems have been passed by Parliament following the third reading of the Financial Market Infrastructures Bill (the Bill) yesterday. FMIs are critical systems that support day-to-day payments ... More >>
Why The Reserve Bank Is Concerned About New Zealand's Rising House Prices
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 12:09 pm | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
New Zealand house prices have risen significantly in the past 12 months. This has raised concerns at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Putea Matua about the risk this poses to financial stability. Central banks responded swiftly to the global ... More >>
The Future Is Māori
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 9:45 am | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
With Māori values becoming an increasingly integral part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s society, the future of our economy is Māori, and it is bright, Reserve Bank Assistant Governor Christian Hawkesby says. Mr Hawkesby was speaking on a panel at the Institute ... More >>
Financial System Sound, But Vulnerabilities Remain
Wednesday, 5 May 2021, 8:56 am | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
While New Zealand has so far come through the COVID-19 pandemic better than initially feared, vulnerabilities in the financial system remain, Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr says in releasing the May Financial Stability Report . “Successful public health ... More >>
Reserve Bank Publishes Cyber Resilience Guidance
Wednesday, 28 April 2021, 9:59 am | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
The Reserve Bank – Te Pūtea Matua has finalised its guidance on what regulated entities should consider when building their cyber resilience. The guidance outlines the Reserve Bank’s expectations around cyber resilience, and draws heavily from ... More >>
Keeping The Bank Door Open For Pacific Peoples
Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 1:11 pm | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
By Adrian Orr Now is the time for New Zealand banks to act with courage to keep providing banking services, including money remittances, to the Pacific Islands open. The scale and complexity of the challenges facing Pacific Island countries are significant, ... More >>
New Deposit Takers Act A Step Closer
Thursday, 22 April 2021, 10:21 am | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
A Cabinet decision to adopt the final measures resulting from the Reserve Bank Act Review will see drafting commence for new legislation to be known as the Deposit Takers Act. The measures announced by Minister of Finance Hon Grant Robertson will ... More >>
