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Regulators relax rules to help out public companies
Law & Regulation

Regulators relax rules to help out public companies

The Financial Markets Authority and NZX are relaxing their rules to help companies during the coronavirus outbreak. The markets regulator is giving listed companies extra time to file accounts, while the stock exchange operator will make it easier for firms to raise cash. The FMA...

Victoria Young 19 Mar 2020
RBNZ can't say if or when it may approve AMP Life sale
Law & Regulation

RBNZ can't say if or when it may approve AMP Life sale

The Reserve Bank said it won't approve AMP Life's sale of its New Zealand life insurance business if it is "not comfortable" with it and said it can't provide a time frame for a decision.The central bank also hinted that it hasn't yet received all the information it needs to make...

Jenny Ruth 19 Mar 2020
Coordinated rate cut to combat outbreak whips kiwi around
Law & Regulation

Coordinated rate cut to combat outbreak whips kiwi around

The Federal Reserve in the United States and a raft of other central banks in major economies have acted in concert to enhance liquidity in the global financial system and the Fed has slashed its key interest rate to zero and resumed printing money. The New Zealand dollar was...

Jenny Ruth 16 Mar 2020
Major banks rush to pass on rate cut to customers
Law & Regulation

Major banks rush to pass on rate cut to customers

Westpac was the first of the major banks to promise to fully pass on the Reserve Bank's slashing of its official cash rate cut in reaction to what one expert is calling the one-in-200 year event the central bank had been modelling.As well as cutting the OCR from 1 percent to 0.25...

Jenny Ruth 16 Mar 2020


Victoria Young
Victoria Young

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With a professional career spanning New Zealand, Singapore, and London, Victoria Young has been with BusinessDesk since 2019, initially as a senior reporter before taking on the role of investigations editor in 2022, then editor in 2024. 
She has been instrumental in growing BusinessDesk as this country’s premium business news brand.
She was the 2023 recipient of a Brian Gaynor initiative grant.
Victoria holds law and arts degrees from Victoria University of Wellington. 
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