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  1. 31 March 2025

    Banking

    The FMA regulates certain products that may be offered by banks (e.g. managed funds) to you. The FMA is interested in the overall conduct of banks. THe FMA does not have a direct legislative mandate for regulating the conduct of providers of core retail banking (such as lending, credit and bank accounts).

  2. 22 January 2024

    Independent trustees

    You'll need a licence if you are appointed as an independent trustee of a restricted KiwiSaver scheme or a workplace superannuation or legacy scheme. Every restricted managed investment scheme must have at least one licensed independent trustee. See more about the licensing and registration and compliance obligations of independent trustees on this page.

  3. 9 July 2025

    FAQs

    This page frequently asked questions about Offers of financial products including: due diligence; kinds of financial offers; Product Disclosure statements (PDS); dual language PDS exemptions; equity offer financial information; debt offers financial information; schedule 1 offers; offers under employee share purchase schemes; small offers and offers of financial products of same class as quoted financial products.

  4. 5 July 2024

    Shares

    When you buy shares, you're buying a small part of a company. You can buy shares directly or own them through a managed fund which pools many investors’ money. Shares are riskier than other types of investments such as bonds and cash investments. Before diving into the share market, learn more about the ins and outs of trading and stock investment.

  5. 31 July 2023

    Standards for designated Financial Market Infrastructures

    The standards for designated FMIs were issued on 27 July 2023 under sections 31 and 34 of the Financial Market Infrastructures Act 2021 (the FMI Act) by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the Financial Markets Authority acting jointly as the regulator under section 9 of the FMI Act. The standards come into effect starting from 1 March 2024.

  6. 23 May 2019

    Superannuation products

    Superannuation schemes are managed fund investments. When you save via a superannuation scheme, your money is pooled with other New Zealander’s in your scheme and is spread across different kinds of investments. Some schemes offer additional benefits such as life or disability insurance. If you’re considering joining a workplace savings scheme instead of KiwiSaver, make sure you compare the benefits first.

  7. 5 July 2024

    Bonds

    When you buy a bond, you’re lending money to a bond issuer - usually a government, council or company - for a set period of time (the term). The term is fixed by the issuer and can range between one and 30 years. They’re often known as ‘fixed interest’ investments. Learn more about the different types of bonds and understand their returns, risks and costs here.

  8. 5 September 2025

    Levies and waivers

    The FMA receives funding from the Crown and a proportion of our costs is recouped from industry through levies. The Financial Markets Authority (Levies) Regulations 2012 (the Regulations), as amended in 2020 and 2022, set out the levies payable by industry. The levies are set by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment (MBIE). See this page for information relating to levies, levy classes, levy waivers, costs and the application process.

  9. 29 April 2025

    Climate Reporting Entities (CREs)

    The New Zealand government has introduced a new regime making climate-related disclosures mandatory for some organisations. Organisations covered (known as Climate Related Entities or CREs) will have to make annual disclosures covering governance arrangements, risk management, strategies and metrics and targets for mitigating and adapting to climate change impacts. The requirement applies to the larger publicly listed companies, big insurers, banks, non-bank deposit takers and investment managers. Read more on the FMA website.

  10. 15 March 2023

    Single adviser business

    Single adviser business is a way you can operate under the new financial advice regime. The licence can be in your business name (if, for example, you run your business through a company and your company will hold the licence with you as the individual adviser) or your individual name, if you personally hold the licence in your own name. See the licensing requirements; costs; duties and obligations and next steps to take here.

  11. 15 March 2023

    Business or individual with financial advisers

    Business or individual with financial advisers is a way you can operate under the new financial advice regime. Holding a financial advice provider licence in your individual name means you cannot call yourself a financial adviser and you will be personally responsible for any liabilities incurred as a financial advice provider, including liabilities for breach of legal duties (we will provide more information about this soon).See the licensing requirements; costs; duties and obligations, and next steps you should take here.

  12. 8 September 2023

    Unregistered businesses

    These pages contain the names of businesses or individuals that are not registered as a financial service provider in New Zealand but may be offering financial services.

  15. 1 November 2014

    Declaration by individual relevant party such as owner

    Declaration form to be completed by an individual relevant party such as an owner when applying for a market services licence under Part 6 of the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 (FMC Act) and disclosure is required by relevant parties, as defined in regulation 189 of the Financial Markets Conduct Regulations 2014 (Regulations).