Tag Archives: bnz

23/06/2010 Posted in New Zealand Leave a comment

How Not to Do Customer Surveys, a BNZ Fail

By Ben Kepes

God give me strength… So yesterday I got a call from our business banker asking what would make my life with BNZ Internet Banking easier. “Well”, I said, “that’s easy. Don’t make me use three separate logins to access the 10 or so bank accounts that I have access to.

Tagged , , |
14/09/2009 Posted in Business, My businesses, New Zealand, Strategy 10 Comments

Why Banking is Broken, A BNZ Rant (Part two)

By Ben Kepes

I posted last week about a banking situation that had me all hot under the collar. In an effort to continue naming and shaming (and hopefully drive improvements in the process), here is part two. This morning I received a check from a US client. The client in question is

Tagged , , , |
07/09/2009 Posted in Business, IT, My businesses, New Zealand 3 Comments

Time for a the BNZ Rant, They Don’t Get It….

By Ben Kepes

My fellow blogger Lance Wiggs tends to be a bit of a curmudgeon when it comes to banks in new Zealand, in light of the fact that he’s sitting somewhere in the middle of Africa, I figured I’d take up the baton. I’ve banked with the Bank of New Zealand

Tagged , , , |
24/08/2009 Posted in Business, Design, IT, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy 18 Comments

BNZ, Outsourcing Design to Xero

By Ben Kepes

The Bank of New Zealand is a reasonably significant shareholder in Xero and so many of us expected that they’d be working together on the odd project. What we didn’t expect was that the bank would seemingly outsource their web design to Xero but it looks very much like they

Tagged , , , , |
03/04/2008 Posted in Economic Development, New Zealand, Society Leave a comment

More forecasting pain for homeowners…

By Ben Kepes

Following on from Bernard Hickey’s dire predictions a few days ago, the BNZ economists have come out saying that property stocks in New Zealand are 30% over-valued on average. The Bank isn’t saying that prices will fall by 30% but it’s not a large step from overvaluation to correction is

Tagged , , |

The Author

Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

Subscribe to the Blog

 Subscribe - Posts for all authors

Enter your email address and we'll send our posts to you: