Wynyard Group, which raised $65 million as part of its NZX listing on Friday, has bought UK-based MHA Gateway’s anti-financial crime service for an undisclosed sum. The intelligence software developer bought the intellectual property, customer contracts and exclusive rights to the gateway service from MHA Compliance and Training, a 20-year-old, Surrey-based firm whose suite of tools are used in the …

Warehouse Group, New Zealand’s biggest listed retailer, has firmed up plans to improve its workforce with better training and longer service rewarded with higher pay. Starting Aug. 1, Warehouse will introduce a ‘career retailer wage’ for staff who have completed full training and worked 5,000 hours or more, equivalent to just over two years’ full-time work, the Auckland-based company said …

First home buyers remain “a priority” for the government and “all tools have to be considered” in balancing their needs with the Reserve Bank’s likely imposition of restrictions on home lending for buyers with small deposits, says Prime Minister John Key. Speaking to the Local Government New Zealand conference in Hamilton, Key appeared to accept the central bank was unlikely …