Industry landscapes
The companies, capital and talent shaping financial services in New Zealand. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.
An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗
No company example met every recorded classification, independence and public-profile gate in this snapshot. The live directory may have newer qualifying companies.
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15 of 488 tracked companies have open roles.
4 of 488 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 3 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 100.0% of disclosed capital, while 99.2% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Explore the segments →Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD
| Year | Funding (USD) | Founded | Raising |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $0 | 22 | 0 |
| 2017 | $0 | 22 | 0 |
| 2018 | $4.9M | 21 | 1 |
| 2019 | $150.84K | 21 | 1 |
| 2020 | $0 | 15 | 0 |
| 2021 | $0 | 14 | 0 |
| 2022 | $210M | 8 | 1 |
| 2023 | $0 | 10 | 0 |
| 2024 | $0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | $0 | 2 | 0 |
Share of all disclosed company funding.
4 recorded rounds since 2016
Recorded participation in financial services company rounds since 2016.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Backed by Oriens Capital.
No reviewed exact national-ID connector has yet been qualified for New Zealand; this is a checked implementation boundary, not evidence that filings are absent.; No reviewed exact national-ID connector has yet been qualified for New Zealand; this is a checked implementation boundary, not evidence that filings are absent.
How the New Zealand companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
9 of the 488 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (1.8%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 225,075 visits.
| Company | Monthly visits | Authority | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASB Bankasb.co.nz | 3,057,466 | 59 | 34.7% |
| AMI Insuranceami.co.nz | 323,367 | 39 | 59.7% |
| AA Insuranceaainsurance.co.nz | 305,113 | 45 | 52.2% |
| Towertower.co.nz | 298,432 | 43 | 58.8% |
| Simplicitysimplicity.kiwi | 225,075 | 40 | 48.8% |
| Pie Fundspiefunds.co.nz | 166,818 | 30 | 90.1% |
| Cash Converters Digitalcashconverters.co.nz | 114,334 | 15 | 57.9% |
| Southern Cross Travel Insurancescti.co.nz | 104,581 | 39 | 48.8% |
| Squirrelsquirrel.co.nz | 85,547 | 36 | 52.5% |
Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.
18 of these companies (3.7%) publish at least one Android app — 24 apps in all, carrying 8.5M installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANZ goMoney New ZealandANZ | 2.6M | 4.3 | Finance |
| ASB Mobile BankingASB Bank | 1.8M | 3.5 | Finance |
| Kiwibank Mobile BankingKiwibank | 1.5M | 3.6 | Finance |
| BNZ MobileBank of New Zealand | 1.1M | 4.2 | Finance |
| My Southern CrossSouthern Cross | 277.3K | — | Health & Fitness |
| The Co-operative Bank (NZ)Co-operative Bank | 255.2K | 4.2 | Finance |
| TSB Bank Mobile BankingTSB Bank | 197K | 3.6 | Finance |
| AMI InsuranceAMI Insurance | 156.8K | — | Finance |
| BNZ Mobile Business BankingBank of New Zealand | 120.8K | — | Finance |
| ASB IDASB Bank | 96.8K | — | Finance |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2024Q4–2025Q3).
| Segment | Apps | Installs | Leading app | Release trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banks | 12 | 7.9M | ANZ goMoney New Zealand 2.6M | |
| Insurance Distribution | 2 | 289.6K | My Southern Cross 277.3K | |
| Insurance Carriers | 2 | 218.2K | AMI Insurance 156.8K | |
| Asset Management | 2 | 74.2K | Generate KiwiSaver 54.5K | |
| Services For Investment Industry | 3 | 12.7K | Simplicity 10.7K | |
| Currency Exchange Services | 2 | 5.8K | Lotus FX Online 5K |
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
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Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.
Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
Singapore-based technology company Multiplier has acquired Oxygen Advisors, marking its sixth acquisition worldwide.
Berlin-based Tower has raised €5.5 million across pre‑seed and seed funding rounds to advance its data engineering platform for the AI era.
Novacyt S.A. has conditionally agreed to acquire, via its wholly owned subsidiary, Novacyt Holdings UK Limited, the entire issued share capital of Southern Cross Diagnostics Pty Ltd
There is a clear similarity between this transaction and Santander’s acquisition of TSB Bank in the UK.
Simpson Thacher is representing Grant Thornton Advisors LLC (“Grant Thornton Advisors”) in connection with the further expansion of Grant Thornton’s multinational platform through the pending acquisition of Grant Thornton New Zealand.
Forbar buys Hobson Wealth
The NZX acquired the active funds manager from Craigs Investment Partners in a deal worth more than $30m.
Sale of Insurance Insider, a provider of insights, deep analysis, and data solutions to the world’s top insurers, distributors, service providers and investors, to ECI, a mid-market private equity firm.
Avanti Finance has secured $14.2 million (₹120 crore) in equity funding from Dia Vikas Capital.
No decision on an initial public offering [IPO] will be made in this term of government.
Top 10 categories among 99 recorded events in the 24-month window.
1 companies with recorded IPO activity
IPO1 reports
10 tracked people moves
Departure Previously Chief risk officer
Appointment Chief Executive Officer
Departure Previously Chief Executive Officer
Appointment Chief Executive Officer
Departure Previously Chief Executive Officer
Resignation Previously Chief Executive Officer
Appointment Chief Finance Officer
Appointment Chief Operating Officer
Products, platforms and features in the recorded window
Parametric microinsurance
4 recorded customer wins
Customer: Canadian CopperFinance - Construction Financing
Customer: silver bullet minesMining
Customer: Westpac New ZealandInsurance
1 companies with reported reductions
46 rolesAI automation
2 recorded events
fined for operational risk management failuresPrudential Regulation Authority
approved indirect takeoverPRA
1 tracked suits
breach of the shareholders\' agreementCivil · Ongoing
Reported company results in the recorded window.
Median across 13 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| multiplier→Oxygen Advisors ↗ | Announced | 2026-03-31 | Not stated in snapshot |
| novacyt→Southern Cross ↗ | Announced | 2026-02-23 | Not stated in snapshot |
| santander→TSB Bank ↗ | 2026-02-06 | Not stated in snapshot | |
| grant thornton→Grantthornton ↗ | Pending | 2025-11-06 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Forbar→Hobson Wealth Partners ↗ | Announced | 2025-09-19 | Not stated in snapshot |
| forsyth barr→Hobson Wealth Partners ↗ | Completed | 2025-07-29 | Not stated in snapshot |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
1 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 6-posting snapshot covers 5 employers.
0 tracked postings mention remote work.
2 postings specify a level.
Top skills across 6 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| ASB Bank ↗ | 6,972 |
| Bank of New Zealand ↗ | 5,901 |
| Southern Cross ↗ | 5,409 |
| TSB Bank ↗ | 553 |
| Co-operative Bank ↗ | 442 |
| fidelity life assurance nz ↗ | 400 |
| NZX ↗ | 319 |
| partners life ↗ | 258 |
75 founders and chief executives across 63 companies.
Co-Founder Prsquare Investment, ex-Nomura, ANZ, Standard Chartered Bank, Credit Suisse, ICICI Bank. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras BTech 1999…
Raw Nature, Pets at Rest, ex- NZ Venture Investment Fund, Green Cross Health, NZ Super Fund, LDC, Future Fund. University of Auckland BCom 1995…
Foster Stockbroking, ex- Augusta Funds Management, Cranport Hedgefund. King's College, Auckland 1994, Auckland University of Technology 2000
Ex-Mayne Wetherell, NOVA Chemicals, Virgin Galactic, Alizz Islamic Bank. Queen's University BA, Victoria University of Wellington LLB.
Ex-Blue Boar Interactive, Valuecruncher, Woodward Partners, Morel & Co, Cameron & Co, Agfa, CRM Group, Agenda Communcations…
Marama Lab, NZ Innovation Booster GP, Annex Consulting, ex-Kiwi Innovation Network. University of Canterbury B.Sc
Fuso New Zealand · ex-Managing Director HLNZ, Zavy, Crowdsphere · Victoria University of Wellington BA 1989
Ex- Business Bank of New Zealand. UHI Psychology / Sociology / Political science & Research & Methodology…
Elevation Capital, ex-Nzx, ex-Allied Farmers, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Ex- ANZ Securities, First NZ Capital, National Bank of New Zealand. Victoria University of Wellington
ex- ASB Bank, Westpac, Commonwealth Bank. University of Otago LLB 1993, University of Sydney MBA 2011
Accounting and Tax Group, ex-Figured On Farm, MYOB, BankLink. Auckland University of Technology 2003
4 profiles with education records.
1 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
232,323 articles in the measured 12-month window.
Financial Services coverage across New Zealand · articles per complete quarter
| Quarter | Articles |
|---|---|
| 2021Q2 | 46,241 |
| 2021Q3 | 50,501 |
| 2021Q4 | 48,093 |
| 2022Q1 | 44,247 |
| 2022Q2 | 57,125 |
| 2022Q3 | 46,533 |
| 2022Q4 | 61,064 |
| 2023Q1 | 67,780 |
| 2023Q2 | 47,200 |
| 2023Q3 | 56,487 |
| 2023Q4 | 55,890 |
| 2024Q1 | 51,659 |
| 2024Q2 | 52,098 |
| 2024Q3 | 59,528 |
| 2024Q4 | 65,260 |
| 2025Q1 | 74,576 |
| 2025Q2 | 59,133 |
| 2025Q3 | 69,145 |
| 2025Q4 | 51,944 |
| 2026Q1 | 59,873 |
Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.
129 recorded company events across 18 companies; percentages use that event total.
Financial Services coverage across New Zealand · ranked by full-period article count.
Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.
Financial Services coverage across New Zealand
| Keyword | Recent | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| flood resilience | 631 | 299 | 111% |
| low-income banking | 483 | 40 | 1108% |
| weather emergency | 447 | 282 | 59% |
| trade facilitation commitments | 441 | 196 | 125% |
| study overseas | 419 | 251 | 67% |
| floodplain management | 385 | 211 | 82% |
| rugby world cup qualifiers | 385 | 229 | 68% |
| overseas study | 377 | 242 | 56% |
| multilateral trade pact | 352 | 165 | 113% |
| cricket world cup qualifiers | 351 | 229 | 53% |
| test cricket | 2,356 | 5,347 | -56% |
| test innings | 1,735 | 4,237 | -59% |
| odi cricket | 1,462 | 4,098 | -64% |
| limited overs cricket | 1,447 | 4,060 | -64% |
| odi tactics | 1,384 | 3,985 | -65% |
Financial Services coverage across New Zealand
test cricket, odi tactics, test innings
38.1% critical · 26.9% positiveinflation reports fx, odi world cup, icc world cup
34.3% critical · 30.7% positiveinflation reports fx, gdp growth forex, currency intervention policies
32.5% critical · 41.0% positiveFinancial Services coverage across New Zealand. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.
Company counts, hiring and disclosed funding across the recorded hubs.
65.2% across the displayed hubs
9 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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11.7% across the displayed hubs
2 companies hiring · $4.9M disclosed funding
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8.5% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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5.7% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $210.0M disclosed funding
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2.8% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
Explore companies in Tauranga ↗
2.5% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
Explore companies in Takanini ↗
2.1% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
Explore companies in Dunedin ↗
1.4% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
Explore companies in Nelson ↗Clear definitions for making better comparisons.
It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.
No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.
A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.
Company ecosystem snapshot: 2 September 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.
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