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Scoop
03-06-2025
- Business
- Scoop
ASB Drops Mortgage Rates For The Seventh Time This Year
ASB has today reduced several of its fixed home lending rates by up to 20 basis points, marking the bank's seventh fixed rate mortgage drop in 2025. ASB has also lowered some of its term deposit rates by between 5 and 20 basis points. ASB's Executive General Manager Personal Banking Adam Boyd says 'Interest rates remain a hot topic of conversation, with homeowners and first home buyers watching the market closely. Whether you're looking to fix or float, today's drops to our fixed lending rates across short and medium terms, along with our lower variable rates announced last week, give New Zealanders a range of appealing options to consider.' All rate decreases are effective immediately. Fixed home lending term Previous rate New rate Rate decrease 6-month 5.59% 5.45% - 14 bps 1-year 4.99% 4.95% - 4 bps 18-month 4.99% 4.89% - 10 bps 2-year 4.99% 4.95% - 4 bps 3-year 5.35% 5.15% - 20 bps © Scoop Media ASB Bank Helping you get one step ahead. In 1847, ASB opened as the Auckland Savings Bank with the pledge: 'to serve the community; to grow and to help Kiwis grow'. And that is very much what ASB is about today. ASB is a leading provider of integrated financial services in New Zealand including retail, business and rural banking, funds management and insurance. ASB strives to consistently provide its customers with outstanding service and innovative financial solutions. They're dedicated to providing simple financial products that allow their customers to bank with them how and when they want. We all have our own ways to measure progress, and our own stories about the things that matter to us. Whatever way you choose to measure progress, and whatever your goals, ASB is there to help you get one step ahead.
Scoop
21-05-2025
- Scoop
Police Make Discovery In Early Morning Traffic Stop
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 5:56 pm Press Release: New Zealand Police A forbidden driver has added serious drugs offences to his list of woes after a traffic stop in Whangārei this morning. Frontline staff patrolling through Whangārei stopped a vehicle travelling along Memorial Drive before 1.30am. Whangārei Area Commander, Inspector Maria Nordstrom says it was quickly established the 19-year-old was a forbidden driver. 'The teenager was arrested on the roadside, and in the process of searching the man he was found to be carrying illicit drugs. 'A further search was invoked on a shoulder bag he was wearing across his body.' Inside, Police located more than 21 grams of MDMA and 491 LSD tablets. Inspector Nordstrom says a further search inside the vehicle also located additional MDMA. Around $150 in cash was also seized. The 19-year-old will appear in the Whangārei District Court today on drugs offences including possession for supply of MDMA and possession of MDMA. He will also face other driving offences. 'Possession for supply is a serious offence and carries with it a maximum penalty of 14 years imprisonment,' Inspector Nordstrom says. 'It's another great outcome from our team working overnight keeping harmful substances out of communities.' © Scoop Media
Scoop
03-05-2025
- Politics
- Scoop
State Highway 2 Open
State Highway 2 south of Dannevirke is now open following the earlier crash. © Scoop Media NEW ZEALAND POLITICS Gordon Campbell: On The Aussie Election Finale The only spectre haunting Anthony Albanese's government going into Election Day tomorrow will be the way the polls got wrong the likely 2019 election outcome. Back then, the Scott Morrison government got re-elected in an upset result. Opposition leader Peter Dutton is clinging to that precedent, in hope of a miracle. This time, all of the prevailing signs – including the consistent theme of the polls for the past month – indicate that Albanese's Labor government will trounce Dutton's conservative coalition. What's different from 2019? Albanese, like Morrison before him, is a known quantity. UnionAID: Fiji Union Leader Visiting NZ Highlighting Struggle Of Garment Workers At the event in Wellington, Jotika will join Living Wage Aotearoa New Zealand Executive Director, Gina Lockyer, to explore the struggles and resilience of Fiji's garment workers and their collective fight for better pay and conditions. Hokotehi Moriori Trust: Historic Translocation Of Hakoakoa Marks New Chapter In Moriori Conservation Leadership In a significant milestone for indigenous-led conservation, Hokotehi Moriori Trust has successfully carried out the first imi (Moriori tribal group) translocation of hakoakoa (muttonbird), relocating 50 juvenile birds from Mangere Island to a newly prepared site in Kaingaroa. Department Of Internal Affairs: Government Chief Digital Officer Issues Standard To Protect Government-Held Personal Information The new standard requires public service agencies to conduct a risk assessment whenever personal information is to be shared and includes robust safeguards to protect individual privacy and directs agencies to apply best practices when granting access to personal information. Te Pāti Māori: Keep The Window Open- UCOL Must Stay 'Matapihi ki te Ao is more than a name, it's a promise. A window to the world for our rangatahi and whānau,' says Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. 'We won't sit back while this Government shuts the door on Māori futures. Our commitment is clear—we would invest more in regional tertiary education, not less.' Unions Otago: May Day Workers' Hui Unless your workplace is already utopia – and we haven't come across one yet – there is a good reason for all union members to come to this hui. Whatever your union and whatever matters most to you and your workmates, please join us at the union meeting this May Day so that we can keep building our relationships and strength as a movement for workers' rights. People Against Prisons Aotearoa: Voting Ban 'Undermines Democratic Principles' Says Justice Group The right to vote is the basis of democratic government. Legitimate governments cannot arbitrarily remove people from the pool that elects them. If the Government strips New Zealanders of the right to vote, it is attacking the democratic principles it claims to be founded on.
