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Commerce Minister Faafoi to keep eye on smaller financial advisers
By Paul McBeth Dec. 8 (BusinessDesk) - Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Kris Faafoi doesn't want to strangle the small end of town with too much regulation in the latest overhaul of legislation governing financial advisers. Members of Parliament sent the Financial Ser...

Spark, Vodafone scorn 'self-serving' 5G build proposal from Chorus
By Pattrick Smellie Dec. 8 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand's two largest mobile telecommunications providers, Spark and Vodafone, have poured scorn on a proposal by fixed broadband network owner Chorus that the next generation of so-called 5G mobile technology should be built on...

MBIE investigates leak of consultant payments after claim it understated the true cost
By Jonathan Underhill Dec. 8 (BusinessDesk) - The Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment has launched an investigation into a privacy breach involving the leak of payments to thousands of consultants, the recruitment firms that supply them and contract details for the p...