About $1.5 million of the $4.4m of donations received came from outside Milford Asset Management and its related parties.
NZ may avoid a recession, according to the Reserve Bank's latest forecasts, but it will be a near-run thing and future growth looks lower than it was pre-covid.
Kiwibank grew its business lending by three times the total bank lending growth in the year ended June.
An RBNZ paper on its money-printing programmes said fighting rampant inflation was preferable to dealing with deflation and economic depression.