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Understanding the Role of the Reserve Bank

The Reserve Bank is one of the most important institutions in a country’s economy, quietly steering the financial system to ensure stability, growth, and public confidence. In New Zealand, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) is tasked with several key responsibilities that directly impact everyday life—from the mortgage rates we pay to the value of our currency.

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Kick starting the NZ economy

With the Reserve Bank handling inflation and interest rates, and the Government managing tax and budgets, working together is key to a stable, growing economy. After five rollercoaster years, things are finally settling and heading in the right direction.

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Paying your mortgage off early

Most first home loans start over a 30 year term as that will afford you the most home for your payments to begin with however it usually doesn’t stay that way as life events and breaks occur that will change it up affecting the mortgage size and term its applied to.

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Setting ourselves up for a successful future

As we travel through life at 60 minutes an hour our needs and priorities change with us, from our teens through our twenties, thirties, forties, fifties and so on. Breaking it into lots of ten years, then five, then two, down to quarterly and less, we can achieve quite a bit when we set a plan and our minds to it.

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Preparing a successful finance or mortgage application

Lenders make their money by lending to you and want to ensure they get it all back with interest and no issues along the way for either party. Want to know what lenders really look for in your finance or mortgage application? Check out our latest blog for some helpful tips.

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Official Cash Rate Eases to 3.5%

With the Official Cash Rate ( OCR ) now eased a further 0.25% to 3.5% on April 9th, we’re well on our way to our desired neutral rate of 3% and finally recovering from the madness of the last five years.

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The Financial Year Ahead

The new financial year is upon us and we’re set to fly from here on out. With all the pain of the last 5 years behind us, interest rates are easing to near their resting place and we’re poised for growth in GDP with house prices settled and signs of upward trends … we’re on the mend.

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Two years on and growing strong

Infinance now live 2 years on 15th March … my how we have grown.

With clients from Northland to Southland and across the country from major centres to regions, starting from zero 2 years ago we now have multiple and repeat clients with a vast array of requirements.

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Better Finance joins our provider panel

Better Finance now on the provider panel for Infinance through head dealer group Link Financial Group (LFG) as an additional facility in the personal and business finance space.

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Finance Now and Infinance

Infinance is proud to be selected to pilot a program with Finance Now as a test to ascertain suitability to the Link Financial Group as the national head dealer group provider.

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It’s all going to plan

We’ve been saying for a while now that the Reserve Bank’s (RBNZ) monetary policy of controlled easing of the economy, bringing everything down gently to a soft landing is the right approach and its paying off.

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Fast mortgages could be the way forward for NZ

With the current lead time for most banks around 10 working days to assessment there may be a channel to provide much quicker approval times if NZ banks adopt some overseas models with an open banking framework that securely shares banking details with third party providers.

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Infinance now accredited with Kiwibank

Infinance is now officially accredited with Kiwibank, bringing more options for home loans, including for first-time buyers through their Kainga Ora partnership.

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