JPMorgan Chase Bank’s New Zealand branch have been given a formal warning by the Reserve Bank for a four-month period in 2013 when it didn’t have appropriate risk assessment measures in place to meet anti-money laundering legislation. The central bank today issued a formal warning to the JPMorgan branch, saying it “has reasonable grounds to believe that for a period of approximately four …
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Chorus shares jump after regulator lifts access pricing
Shares of Chorus, the regulated telecommunications network operator, jumped as much as 17 percent after the Commerce Commission lifted the prices it can charge for access to the traditional copper lines network for broadband internet services. The shares rose as high as $2.50, the highest the shares have traded since October last year, when the antitrust regulator priced its copper …
Read More »Power companies face ban on “saving’ departing customers
Power companies face a ban on so-called “save” calls, where they ring a customer departing for a rival and try to entice them back with a better offer, to the dismay of large electricity retailers. The Electricity Authority published its decision today to ban the practice, but has stopped short of banning “win-back” offers, in which an electricity retailer tries …
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