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Welcome to New Zealand's Banking Ombudsman Scheme

The Banking Ombudsman Scheme investigates and resolves disputes between customers and their banks. We are independent of scheme participants, customers, and government. Our service is free of charge and easy to use.

This website provides you with information to help you avoid making mistakes with banking services, and how we can help you if you need it. It also helps you make a complaint to us if you're unable to sort it out with your bank.

We will do our best to help you - trust us to be fair.

Welcome to New Zealand's Banking Ombudsman Scheme

We will do our best to help you - trust us to be fair.

Latest news

Proceed with care - Do your homework

05 Sep 2016

Our advice this Money Week is to make sure you know what you're in for before committing to any new banking arrangement.

Should bank pay for watch stolen from house?

31 Aug 2016

Ms K had an expensive watch stolen when her house was burgled. She thought the bank should reimburse her for its full value, even though it wasn’t listed on her insurance policy. Did we agree?

Debate over what is the end of the month…

24 Aug 2016

A man who transferred money from one account into another at the end of a month to go in a prize draw complained to us when he didn’t win.