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Our Chief Economist Kelly Eckhold says despite the current global uncertainty, it's important to remain calm.

Westpac's Sam Aschebrock is attempting to run for 24 hours this weekend to raise funds for the Choppers. Click through and support him if you're able. Go Sam! 🏃

At Westpac we’ve been privileged to support Community Housing Providers and their ambitions to get more Kiwi families in need into social and affordable homes.   That capacity will now get a significant boost, thanks to a new loan guarantee scheme and $150m lending facility launched by the Government last week. In practical terms, CHPs will have more capacity to build in communities across the country than ever before.   There’s still more we as a country could be doing to support CHP developments, but this is a fantastic leap in the right direction #TogetherGreater Read More at: https://lnkd.in/giXqTUPs

For over 10 years, we’ve worked alongside some of New Zealand’s greatest, sharing stories of mental health, leadership, resilience, and overcoming adversity. Their messages of success and strength have inspired tens of thousands across Aotearoa, and we’re proud to have them as our ambassadors. Thank you Richie McCaw, thank you Dame Sophie Pascoe, and thank you Sir John Kirwan. #TogetherGreater #WestpacAmbassadors

🚁✨ Meet the New Rescue Hero in the Sky! ✨🚁. We’re proud to support the Philips Search and Rescue Trust with the introduction of their brand-new Airbus H145 D3! This state-of-the-art $20 million helicopter replaces the old BK117 and is already soaring above Waikato, Coromandel, and King Country, ready to take on high-stakes rescue missions. The new bright red chopper has more space for critical care and the ability to reach even the most remote spots. The H145 D3 is the ultimate game-changer for rescue crews. It's all about faster responses, better care, and saving lives – and we’re here for it! 🙌 #TogetherGreater #WestpacChopper Photo: @throughdanielslens

You’ve found a house you like and you’re ready to put in an offer, but how can you work out the right amount? REDNews has five questions you should ask to work out that offer sweet-spot. #FirstHomeSooner #REDNews #TogetherGreater https://lnkd.in/gPKysKFT

Meet Betty Shayle-George, one of our longest-serving employees. Betty was just 19 when she started with Westpac, then called Wellington Savings Bank, in 1978. Betty started as a teller in the Otaki branch where it was just her and the manager, Max. All the shops and townspeople operated in cash so it was a very manual, intensive job. Betty would manually count out withdrawals and deposits, issue bank cheques, write in savings account books, and open term deposits. Max was responsible for the lending in the branch. It was a small branch in a small town where people all knew each other. Betty said she was sometimes the only one in the branch – opening up or closing by herself if the manager went home early. If the branch ran out of a certain denomination of cash , Betty would walk down to the BNZ and exchange a cheque for cash. “There was just a lot of trust,” she said. Betty said one of the big changes between then and now was flexibility. She had a 10-month-old daughter when she first started but because there were no daycare facilities, Betty was lucky to have help from her mum. “I think the hardest thing when my daughter was young was that you didn't have many sick days. You had five sick days and you had to share those between yourself and your child.” Adding to this was the fact that fathers didn’t have flexibility either and society wasn’t set up to share the parenting load. Betty said the flexibility now was “awesome - it's definitely gone the right way”. Betty later moved to bigger branches in Levin and Wellington Central, sometimes with 8 or 9 tellers operating at once. She later moved into relationship management and lending and is now in Credit as a Business Credit Manager. The one thing that hasn’t changed – putting the customers at the forefront. “It's interesting when I look back, I was thinking how I used to make sure my customers were always at the forefront of everything I did - and they still are.” #WomenofWestpac #TogetherGreater Image: Betty Shayle-George now and (inset) Betty, then called Hikuraia, in 1980

The Westpac NZ Economics Team previews the possible effects of the US's new tariff schedule, due to be announced on April 2.

It’s been six years since Westpac NZ became the first bank to join Living Wage Aotearoa New Zealand as an accredited employer. As well as paying at least the living wage to our own employees, we’re committed to partnering with contractors and suppliers who do the same. This means our cleaners, security guards and café workers all receive the living wage. Check out this video of some of those people talking about what this means for them. #TogetherGreater Arabella Toussaint Justin Brochocki Colin Trenwith Josh Devoe Geoffrey Lambert Martin G. Russell Jones (he/him) Sarah Wall Morgan Harrison Hannah MacKinven Michelle Huang Cristiano De Martin Avi Rao