RBNZ review seeks wider input on quantitative easing, bank supervision

Tue, 25 Jun 2019

By Paul McBeth June 25 (BusinessDesk) - The panel set up to review the Reserve Bank's governing legislation wants broader public input on some curlier policy questions, such as the decision-making around quantitative easing, the intensity of bank supervision, and what a deposit insurance regime should look like. The panel, tasked by the government to dig into the Reserve Bank Act, launched its second round of consultation yesterday. That was crowded out by Finance Minister Grant Robertson's decision in principle to adopt deposit insuranc...

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