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Gary Hughes: What could be done to simplify & improve anti-money laundering law
Episode 57
New Zealand's anti-money laundering (AML) regime could be simplified and improved, although care would need to be taken to avoid jeopardising our goo…
2 years, 10 months ago
Steve Jurkovich: where Kiwibank has come from, where it's at & where it's going
Episode 56
Ten years from now Kiwibank CEO Steve Jurkovich wants New Zealanders to be thinking about their big five, rather than big four, banks, with Kiwibank …
2 years, 10 months ago
Can New Zealand survive repeating tight electricity events?
Episode 55
New Zealand survived a tight electricity supply situation on Friday morning - the 12th so far this year.
It happened after Transpower warned the res…
2 years, 11 months ago
Rebekah Cain: Why banks matter in the push to decarbonise the economy
Episode 54
Like it or not banks are a cornerstone of our economy, meaning they'll need to be a key influence in the push to decarbonise.
One of the ways BNZ is t…
2 years, 11 months ago
Nathan Lewis: What's behind a potential BRICS gold-backed currency system & how it might work
Episode 53
At the heart of suggestions the so-called BRICS countries may develop a new international currency system based on gold that's separate from the US d…
2 years, 11 months ago
Michael Timothy Bennett: why AI will be like a series of black swan events
Episode 52
2023 has become the year of AI. Hype and doomsaying about AI, or artificial intelligence, is hard to avoid.
A key catalyst was OpenAI's release of AI …
3 years ago
Richard Yetsenga; ANZ's Group Chief Economist on where central banks' inflation war is at
Episode 51
Central banks' use of monetary policy to fight inflation is working, but in New Zealand we need to look at evidence demand and prices are being impac…
3 years ago
Hannah Miller: the rise and fall of spellcaster Sam Bankman-Fried
Episode 50
Sam Bankman-Fried was a nerdy billionaire and rockstar of the crypto industry, living a lavish lifestyle in the Bahamas, with celebrities advertising…
3 years ago
Waiting & watching
Episode 50
Kia ora,
Welcome to Thursday’s Economy Watch where we follow the economic events and trends that affect Aotearoa/New Zealand.
I'm David Chaston and thi…
3 years ago
Gaya Herrington: Why the goal should be meeting human needs within planetary boundaries rather than economic growth
Episode 49
The world needs to move to a new economic system where growth is replaced as the ultimate goal by meeting human needs within ecological limits, argue…
3 years ago