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  1. 30 November 2018

    Audit Quality Monitoring Report 2018

    Our quality reviews help improve audit quality standards and ensure audit opinions are reliable. These reviews also help us to achieve our strategic goal of ensuring investors have access to resources that help them make better informed financial decisions. This report summarises our findings from the quality reviews we carried out between 1 July 2017 and 30 June 2018.

  2. 15 November 2018

    Bank Conduct and Culture Report 2018

    The FMA and the RBNZ commissioned Buzz Channel to conduct an online survey among New Zealanders to understand their experience of the conduct and culture of the main bank they use for their personal banking. This is the report.

  4. 24 October 2018

    Ease of doing business survey 2018

    The FMA’s “Ease of doing business survey” is a piece of research from a sample of our regulated populations and the stakeholders we deal with. This research helps us to better understand the impact that our work has on market participants and stakeholders. It informs the way we work and our focus on continuous improvement in our effectiveness and efficiency.

  5. 1 October 2018

    KiwiSaver Report 2018

    The report details the principal matters transacted under the Act during the year ended 30 June 2018, and contains the sixth annual summary of the statistical returns, required to be lodged by KiwiSaver schemes under section 125 of the Act.

  7. 2 August 2018

    FMA Annual Corporate Plan 2018-19

    This Annual Corporate Plan sets out our activities for 2019/20 that will promote our strategic priorities, address regulatory risks and harms, and deliver sector outcomes. This plan should be read alongside our Strategic Risk Outlook, which provides our medium-term view of the most significant risks to and opportunities for promoting fair, efficient and transparent financial markets.

  9. 2 July 2018

    QFE insurance providers’ replacement business practices

    This thematic review published in July 2018 focuses on QFE insurance providers’ replacement business practices and assesses how their policies and procedures are designed to ensure consumer protection at the point of policy replacement.

  10. 28 June 2018

    NZX Obligations Review 2018

    Under the FMC Act, we are required to review at least annually how well a licensed market operator is meeting its obligations, and to publish a written report. Broadly, these relate to the areas of operation that are regulatory in nature. Publishing the report provides transparency into our oversight of NZX. This report was published in 2018.

  11. 27 June 2018

    Improving financial statements monitoring report

    This monitoring report summarises the findings from our thematic review to determine the extent of improvements in the presentation of financial statements in a clear, concise and effective way, and sets out some suggestions for additional improvement.

  12. 11 June 2018

    Key findings from the recent re-licensing of supervisors

    During 2016 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) undertook a review of the New Zealand financial sector. The Financial Stability Assessment Programme report recommended that the FMA ”continue to engage with Supervisors to ensure that they take a consistent approach to their supervision of Managed Investment Scheme (MIS) managers”

  13. 7 June 2018

    Auditor regulation and oversight plan 2018-2021

    FMA has an obligation to publish an auditor regulation and oversight plan by 30 June each year, for a three year period, setting out our intentions for the regulation and oversight of auditors under the Act. This plan will help licensed auditors, registered audit firms and accredited bodies to understand how FMA will approach auditor regulation. It may also be of interest to issuers, investors and their advisers.

  14. 24 May 2018

    New Zealand Equity Market Cleanliness for the years 2010-2016

    This report assesses the cleanliness of New Zealand equity markets. The assessment is based on the prevalence of abnormal price movements ahead of material price sensitive announcements -measured by the market cleanliness statistic (MCS). The report assessed the New Zealand market cleanliness for the years 2010-2016 and found that the MCS appears to be fluctuating and does not display a clear increasing or decreasing trend.

  15. 1 May 2018

    Investor Confidence Report 2018

    The FMA commissioned Buzz Channel to measure New Zealanders’ attitudes towards and confidence in New Zealand’s financial markets. This is the 2019 survey report.