Blog / New Zealand

As I write this, my Rugby World Cup 2011 clock is showing 10 days, 3 hours, 13 minutes and 27 seconds until the start of this year’s tournament! The wait is nearly over and I have to say I am more than a little excited. Nothing could build my excitement more than the great win by the Wallabies over the All Blacks last weekend to break the drought on Tri Nations Championships. It was a cracking game and gave an insight into what we can expect from the greatest sporting event on earth (in my opinion anyway)! The pressure building on the New Zealand team given their past “choking” episodes makes this the most anticipated RWC ever. Will it be too much for them? Well the Wallabies showed that if you’re willing to bash them up, then they’re certainly beatable.

With tens of thousands...

Today we officially launched our services in New Zealand. Alison Lambden, our NZ based representative is busy whipping the press into a frenzy and spreading the word on CurrencyFair.

New Zealanders by nature are great travellers, often doing stints in the UK, Australia and Ireland, and with NZ being such a great place to live it’s a popular spot for many Brits retiring or students moving to study.

Foreign exchange requirements in New Zealand are large and growing. Specifically migration to New Zealand gives rise to around 2 billion of FX transactions annually, not to mention another 2 billion on the back of the large number of international students.

This is due in no small part to the New Zealand government actively developing immigration through strategic...