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Former BNZ chairman says turf out the Reserve Bank as banking regulator

The Reserve Bank doesn't have the competence to regulate banks, Kerry McDonald claims.

Jenny Ruth
Fri, 19 Jan 2018

Company director and former bank chairman Kerry McDonald is calling on the government to take banking regulation away from the Reserve Bank and to get rid of the open bank resolution (OBR) system.

Under OBR, depositors have to take a haircut if a bank gets into financial trouble once that bank’s

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Jenny Ruth
Fri, 19 Jan 2018
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