13/11/2025
“We support quality regulation that makes banking easier for New Zealanders,” said chief executive Roger Beaumont.
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13/11/2025
The Banking Association’s Beaumont said banks are committed to ensuring the availability of cash in New Zealand is reliable and efficient.
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13/11/2025
“We are disappointed in the Commerce Commission’s ‘finely balanced’ decision to not grant interim authorisation for banks and other cash-in-transit customers to collectively negotiate with Armourguard. Armourguard, owned by New York private equity firm Evergreen, is the monopoly provider of comprehensive cash-in-transit services.”
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13/11/2025
“To have cash-in-transit services that New Zealanders can rely on, we need to make sure prices are transparent and that the service is efficient. Armourguard’s proposal does not achieve this.”
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30/10/2025
NZBA supported its proposals to further increase RBNZ’s proposals and bring SRW granularity into alignment with APRA.
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26/10/2025
The couple have begun meeting with banks, MPs, and are preparing for a meeting with Roger Beaumont, chief executive of the Banking Association, the political lobbying body for the banking industry.
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21/10/2025
The New Zealand Banking Association has welcomed the government’s move to fix an inconsistency in the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act, ensuring disclosure errors are treated consistently whether they occurred before or after 2019.
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21/10/2025
“We are disappointed that the government has decided to exclude the ongoing court cases. The principle of a just and equitable approach should be confirmed to apply to all. Government officials recommended that existing cases be included in the law change, and the government previously accepted that advice.”
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17/10/2025
“Banks have invested heavily in the development of APIs to make open banking a reality,” he said, noting the regulations had landed just six weeks before Dec 1.”
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16/10/2025
In its application, the banking association says Armourguard had begun exercising “behaviour that would not be expected in a workably competitive market”.
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