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Guy Pope-Mayell, the chairman of the Dyslexia Foundation of New Zealand, tells MPs how stressful internet banking can be for neuro-different people.
A BNZ report claims 700,000 people risk being left behind in the internet age because they lack essential digital skills. The bank’s chief economist, Paul Conway, said so many people lacking digital skills threatened the promise of a more inclusive and sustainable economy. But Guy Pope-Mayell, chairman of trustees for the Dyslexia Foundation, said there was a glaring gap in the report because it failed to address the roughly one million people who were “neuro-diverse”, many of whom struggled with online systems like internet banking.
MPs call for Kiwibank to backtrack on Waipukurau closure
15 Apr, 2021 04:20 AM
2 minutes to read Rural communities like Waipukurau rely on these banks says MP for Wairarapa Kieran McAnulty
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Central Hawke s Bay s local MPs Kieran McAnulty and Anna Lorck are calling on Kiwibank to keep its Waipukurau branch open, following the bank s announcement yesterday that it will not be closing any more regional branches for the rest of 2021. Two weeks ago, Kiwibank announced the closure of the Waipukurau branch, then yesterday put a moratorium on any more closures before the end of the year, while its trial of regional hubs is completed, said Kieran McAnulty, MP for Wairarapa.
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Women, Māori and Pasifika money know-how to be targeted in new national strategy
14 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Retirement Commissioner Jane Wrightson. Photo / Michael Craig
Bringing up the levels of financial know-how in women, Māori and Pasifika is the aim of a new national strategy for financial capability being launched today.
Jane Wrightson, Retirement Commissioner and the head of the Commission for Financial Capability - the Government s money education arm - said the strategy would bring together commercial entities, the non-profit sector, iwi and the government to work together.
Read More Until now the many agencies across the financial capability sector each engaged in a variety of largely unconnected activities that have the same driver - to help people be better with money so that they can achieve their goals, said Wrightson.