- Hope said that it was wrong to assume all high LVR borrowers were on comparatively low incomes; it might reflect a relatively high income and capacity to service the loan.
- Bankers Association chief executive Kirk Hope said the latest International Monetary Fund report on New Zealand pointed out the strength and stability of our banking system, and it was not helpful to compare it with Cyprus.
- Kirk Hope, chief executive of the New Zealand Bankers’ Association, says the Fair Play on Fees campaign is misleading people and questions their figures.
- NZ Bankers Association chief executive Kirk Hope talks to Mike Hosking about the news NZ’s biggest banks are being sued using class action for a collective $1 billion.
- “Our banks communicate very clearly on fees, which is a reflection of our very competitive banking sector. The fees being singled out are avoidable, and our industry has also made it easy for customers to switch banks if they feel the fees they’re paying are too high,” New Zealand Bankers’ Association chief executive Kirk Hope... Read more »
- Responding to news of the launch of the “Fair Play on Fees” action, bank lobby group the New Zealand Bankers’ Association said talk of legal action failed to take into account differences between the New Zealand and Australian banking sectors.
- Reading between the lines of what the Reserve Bank has said about the macroprudential tools it is working on, regulating loan-to-value ratios would not be its favoured option, believes the Bankers’ Association.
- Is there a need for the Reserve Bank to even have the so-called macro-prudential tools it’s now publicly consulting on? This, says Kirk Hope, CEO of bank lobby group the New Zealand Bankers’ Association, is a good question.
- In response to the report, New Zealand Bankers’ Association chief executive Kirk Hope said that local banks are “among the best funded and regulated in the world, and fiercely competitive. That’s good for New Zealanders and our economy,” said Hope.
- You’d expect the banks to be worried at the prospect of having their business impinged on in such dramatic fashion. But Kirk Hope, chief executive of industry lobby group the New Zealand Bankers Association, is remarkably calm.
