Newstalk ZB
‘Really good move’: Banking Association CEO on the RBNZ lending changes set to impact buyers
14/10/2025
Banking Association CEO Roger Beaumont says this is really good – and will give first-home buyers more flexibility. “They’re taking advantage of what I’d call the ‘sweet spot’ of softer house prices, combined with declining interest rates.”
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Business Desk
Growth in new home loans eases in H1 2025: NZ Banking Association
13/10/2025
The NZBA data also showed that 40% of home-loan customers were paying more than their minimum repayments, while 1.5% were behind.
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NZ Herald
Mortgage rate cuts easing financial pressure on Kiwi home owners, more ahead on loans
13/10/2025
“The decline in retail interest rates is definitely helping reduce financial pressure for many people with home loans,” he said. “That’s especially true for borrowers on floating rates, and will assist those on fixed rates as those loans come up for renewal.”
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Interest.co.nz
NZ Banking Association says 15,000 first home buyers took out mortgages in first half of year with an average loan size of $507,690
13/10/2025
“Despite the challenging economic conditions, we’re seeing most customers continuing to manage their money well,” NZBA Chief Executive Roger Beaumont said.
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First home buyers making the most of current conditions
13/10/2025
A quarter of new home loans went to first home buyers in an otherwise steady lending market from January to June this year, according to retail banking insights released by the New Zealand Banking Association today. There were a total of 1.4 million home loans across 1.2 million customers at the end of June. The...
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Stuff
First homes buyers make the most of quiet market
13/10/2025
The New Zealand Banking Association has released its latest retail banking insights, and they show that of the 60,249 new home loans opened from January to June this year, 25% were for first home buyers.
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NZ Herald
Armourguard challenges banks’ bid for collective cash‑in‑transit talks
08/10/2025
“If we continue as we are now, the likely result will be reduced reliability, slower response times, and a general decline in the overall quality of cash-in-transit services – posing a real risk to the future viability and reliability of this service. That’s why we’ve approached the Commerce Commission.
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Business Desk
07/10/2025
NZBA said RBNZ should seek to align its prudential capital requirements as closely as possible with international standards and comparable jurisdictions.
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Newsroom
Banking association rejects forced cash-trucking takeover theory
03/10/2025
The banking association took issue with the monopoly, saying the merged armoured van cash company had already started exercising “behaviour that would not be expected in a workably competitive market”.
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Business Desk
Reserve Bank official raises prospect of intervention over basic bank accounts
29/09/2025
The NZBA spokesperson said the association’s members had differing views on the merits of each of the three models. “We think the industry is already delivering better access to transaction accounts.”
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