Bank History

Reserve Bank Museum fact sheet. Also available as a PDF (253KB)

Governors of the Reserve Bank - past and present

Our Coat of Arms - history and symbolism. Also available as a PDF (167KB)

Punatoto carving - history and symbolism. Also available as a PDF (56KB)

New Zealand economic and financial chronology 1993 - 2007,
This chronology lists key economic and financial events for the period January 1993 to December 2007. Annual chronologies for earlier periods can be found in successive Reserve Bank Bulletins (generally published the month or quarter following the end of the year in question).

The history of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, PDF (804KB)
In 2009 the Reserve Bank marked its 75th year of operations – three quarters of a century spanning some of New Zealand’s most tumultuous decades.