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  1. 31 January 2025

    Services

    Explore the FMA's comprehensive business services including licensing, supervision, and compliance for financial advisers, FAPs, DIMS providers, MIS managers, and other financial entities. Stay up to date with regulatory obligations, fair conduct programmes, and support tools to meet New Zealand's financial market standards.

  2. 20 May 2022

    All legislation overseen by the FMA

    FMA oversees a range of legislation. We also have certain powers, monitor compliance, investigate and enforce conduct that may consitute a contravention of other legislation where it applies to financial market firms and individuals. View all legislation we oversee on this page.

  4. 21 December 2022

    Enforcing the law

    Enforcement and deterrence is a critical part of the work that the FMA undertakes. It plays a key role in raising standards and responding to conduct that presents the greatest risk of harm to our financial markets. Find out more about our approach to enforcement here.

  5. 26 March 2025

    Make a complaint

    We investigate a range of complaints about the conduct of individuals and businesses that operate in our financial markets. This page talks about when you should complain to us and who better to contact for complaints that fall outside of our remit. You will also find out how to make a complaint and the information we need in order to process a complaint.

  6. 6 October 2021

    Hearings

    The FMA will provide you with an opportunity for a hearing in person in certain circumstances if you are impacted by a decision of the FMA. If you have the right to a hearing, we will let you know. This page outlines our approach to conducting hearings and explains the process we follow if you are entitled to a hearing and request one.

  7. 12 May 2025

    Financial adviser

    To use the term Financial Adviser from the start of the new financial advice regime, you must be registered on the Financial Service Providers Register (FSPR) and engaged by a licensed financial advice provider (FAP) (or authorised body).　 Find out more about licensing, your ongoing obligations and duties and complying with the new Code of Professional Conduct; liabilities and enforcement and frequently asked questions on this page.

  8. 29 April 2025

    FMA Exemption to complement XRB relief for assurance of Scope 3 GHG emissions reporting in 2025

    The FMA has approved in principle a class exemption for climate reporting entities, who use Adoption Provision 8 in NZ CS 2, from the assurance requirement in section 461ZH of the Financial Markets Conduct Act (FMC Act) to the extent that their climate statements are required to disclose scope 3 GHG emissions for accounting periods ending 31 December 2024 through to 30 November 2025.

  9. 8 November 2024

    Expired exemptions

    Find a full list of expired exemptions that relate to the Financial markets Conduct and Securities Act here.

  10. 7 April 2025

    Research

    The FMA conducts a range of research annually to inform the work that we do. View our research reports on this research page.

  11. 5 April 2024

    Authorised body under a financial advice provider licence

    An authorised body is an entity (eg company or partnership) named on a Financial Advice Provider licence. A licensed FAP must agree to an authorised body operating under its licence. The authorised body must be named on the financial advice provider’s transitional licence application, and the licensed FAP will be required to provide information about the authorised body when it applies for its licence. Individuals cannot be authorised bodies under a FAP licence and individual financial advice provider licence holders cannot engage authorised bodies under their licences. Find out more about registration, costs, ongoing obligations, duties, standard consitions, general reporting conditions, code of professional conduct, competency safe harbour, and liability and enforcement on this page.

  12. 11 August 2023

    Enforcement Activity

    Through our investigation and enforcement activities we aim to raise standards of behaviour, deter misconduct, and hold to account those whose conduct harms the fair, efficient and transparent operation of our financial markets. View our list of enforcement actions and cases on this page.

  13. 19 February 2018

    Conduct Outcomes Report 2017

    The Conduct Outcomes Report outlines how we responded to the areas of misconduct we saw during 2017. It covers our enforcement action, monitoring and supervision work, and our activities to address risks and harms on our regulatory perimeter. It also includes good practice suggestions for licensed financial service providers, and sets out where we will focus our energies in 2018.

  14. 20 February 2017

    Conduct Outcomes Report 2016

    This report highlights the key issues and actions from our enforcement, supervision and preventative activities in the period 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.

  15. 4 April 2025

    Fair conduct programme insights report

    Insights from the FMA’s review of fair conduct programmes received from financial institutions ahead of the commencement of the CoFI regime.