Jan 22, 2026 | News, Opinion, Petition, Petition (DMF), Reserve Bank
A recent spat between the government and new Reserve Bank Governor, Dr Anna Breman, brought the issue of central bank independence into the spotlight again. We need the debate. There has been a consensus since the monetary reforms of the 1980s that monetary policy...
Mar 14, 2024 | News, Reserve Bank, Submissions
Positive Money has put in a submission on the Reserve Bank’s plans to introduce debt-to-income ratios (DTIs) by mid year. Debt-to-income ratios aim to restrict residential mortgage credit so that repayments stay within a multiple of the borrower’s income, a key...
Apr 4, 2023 | Future of Money, News, Reserve Bank, Submissions
The Reserve Bank called for submissions to its proposed approach to new forms of private money such as cryptoassets, including stablecoins. It is part of its work on the Future of Money. You can find more about its proposals around Private Innovation. Here’s a...
Dec 14, 2022 | News, Opinion, Reserve Bank
The Government and the Reserve Bank are letting banks off scot-free. The full cost of printing money for the Large Scale Asset Purchase Programme and the Funding for Lending Programme is now falling on taxpayers while banks make record profits. Support during Covid...
Oct 20, 2022 | Media Releases, Monetary Financing, News, Reserve Bank
To: Members of the Petitions Committee, New Zealand Parliamentcc: Dr Duncan Webb, MP (the MP who received our petition) Follow up to our petition, “The Reserve Bank Covid-19 recovery direct funding petition”, published 1 July 2021 You may remember that our petition...
Jul 10, 2022 | Media Releases, News, Reserve Bank
The Government is spinning a false narrative when it tells the nurses, and the nation, that the nurses’ pay offer is the best they can provide, given the lack of money. “The Government’s bank provided private banks and financial institutions with $55 billion dollars...
