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ACC to delay $900m of levy invoices to ease cashflow burden
Coronavirus

ACC to delay $900m of levy invoices to ease cashflow burden

Accident Compensation Corp will put off sending out $900 million of invoices to firms and sole traders for three months to help tide them through the cashflow crunch caused by the covid-19 crisis.The state-owned workplace insurer said invoices for the 2021 financial year that are...

Paul McBeth 17 Apr 2020
Bell Gully, BDO, Baker Tilly take up wage subsidies
Coronavirus

Bell Gully, BDO, Baker Tilly take up wage subsidies

Big-six law firm Bell Gully has joined the group of professional services firms getting government handouts, as smaller accounting practices BDO and Baker Tilly Staples Rodway have also taken the funds. Last week BusinessDesk reported on how big law firms including MinterEllisonR...

Victoria Young 17 Apr 2020
Communication vital for construction operations under level 3
Infrastructure Free

Communication vital for construction operations under level 3

Directors of two Australian construction firms say increased communication and paying attention to small operational changes are key to operating under alert level 3.The New Zealand government today released guidelines for which sectors will be able to open up under level 3 if th...

Dan Brunskill 16 Apr 2020
ANZ NZ made multiple breaches of RBNZ requirements - Deloitte
Finance

ANZ NZ made multiple breaches of RBNZ requirements - Deloitte

ANZ Bank's NZ arm has been using a string of unapproved internal models going back years to calculate how much capital it needs, on top of the unapproved operational risk capital model it was censured for last year.The failure to get its ORC model approved, revealed in May last y...

Jenny Ruth 15 Apr 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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