Information concerning SwipeHQ, Bank of New Zealand and SmartPay
Manhattan Trust made this Official Information request to Financial Markets Authority
From: Manhattan Trust
Dear Financial Markets Authority,
Please provide full disclosure of any correspondence or information the FMA has received in relation to SwipeHQ, Bank of New Zealand, BNZ PayClip and SmartPay.
I wish to know all issues that were raised with the FMA concerning the above mentioned parties.
Yours faithfully,
Manhattan Trust
From: FMA Customer Service
Financial Markets Authority
Dear Manhattan Trust
Thank you for contacting the Financial Markets Authority (FMA).
Your enquiry has been referred to the appropriate department.
We aim to provide you with a response as soon as possible, however this
may take up to 20 working days once all the relevant information has been
received.
Yours sincerely
Joanne Davis-Calvert
From: Vivienne Holm
Financial Markets Authority
Kia Ora,
I refer to the request for information that you made via the FYI website.
Before we can process your request, we need to confirm whether you are a
person covered by [1]section 12 of the Official Information Act 1982.
Section 12 only covers a person who is:
(a) a New Zealand citizen; or
(b) a permanent resident of New Zealand; or
(c) a person who is in New Zealand; or
(d) a body corporate which is incorporated in New Zealand; or
(e) a body corporate which is incorporated outside New Zealand but which
has a place of business in New Zealand.
Can you please tell us which of those five categories applies to you (if
any), and enough information about your identity to enable us to verify
the position.
In addition, your request is currently broadly worded, and would require
us to search a very large volume of our records. For example, it covers
all of the information we hold on Bank of New Zealand, whether or not it
relates to the products you have listed. We will be able to respond to
your request more quickly if it can be narrowed down. For example, you
may only be seeking information about the listed products and/or
information we received over a particular time frame. Could you please
let us know whether you are willing and able to refine the request.
Please feel free to contact me to discuss these issues further if that
would be helpful.
Ngā mihi nui,
Vivienne Holm
Vivienne Holm Senior Solicitor, Governance
T [DDI removed]
E [email address]
Level 2, 1 Grey Street, Wellington, 6011
PO Box 1179, Wellington [2]www.fma.govt.nz [3][IMG] [4][IMG]
6140, New Zealand [5][IMG] [6][IMG]
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From: Manhattan Trust
Dear Vivienne Holm,
Thank you for your message.
I can confirm that I am a New Zealand Citizen in terms of meeting the eligibility criteria for making the request.
As for the scope of the request:
Apologies if the scope appears to be quite broad. I am happy to narrow the focus down to all information disclosed to the FMA by Melissa Bowen relating to BNZ, Smartpay, Swipe HQ and now also MINT WIRELESS (or Mint Payments) .
Hope I have answered both questions to your satisfaction.
Yours sincerely,
Manhattan Trust
From: Vivienne Holm
Financial Markets Authority
Thank you for your latest email, and for narrowing your request.
You may have overlooked the advice in my earlier reply that we need,
“enough information about your identity to enable us to verify the
position [as to your status in terms of section 12].
You have indicated that you are making the request as a citizen (ie a
natural person), but have only provided us with the name of a trust.
Please provide us with your name.
Again, I would be very happy to discuss this over the phone if that would
be helpful.
Ngā mihi nui,
Vivienne Holm
Vivienne Holm Senior Solicitor, Governance
T [DDI removed]
E [email address]
Level 2, 1 Grey Street, Wellington, 6011
PO Box 1179, Wellington [1]www.fma.govt.nz [2][IMG] [3][IMG]
6140, New Zealand [4][IMG] [5][IMG]
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5. file:///tmp/foiextract20181227-2159-1r5qs4s#
From: Manhattan Trust
Dear Vivienne Holm,
Apologies for the oversight. Manhattan trust is a New Zealand trust, the trustees of which are natural persons, all of whom are New Zealand citizens. I will be happy to provide sufficient documentary evidence but clearly that will have to be done outside the public forum.
Please advise the most appropriate method to suffice your concern...
PS: I have also called and left a message on the phone number listed in your message.
Yours sincerely,
Manhattan Trust
From: Vivienne Holm
Financial Markets Authority
Please see attached.
Ngā mihi nui,
Vivienne Holm
Vivienne Holm Senior Solicitor, Governance
T [DDI removed]
E [email address]
Level 2, 1 Grey Street, Wellington, 6011
PO Box 1179, Wellington [1]www.fma.govt.nz [2][IMG] [3][IMG]
6140, New Zealand [4][IMG] [5][IMG]
References
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2. https://www.linkedin.com/company/financi...
3. https://www.facebook.com/FinancialMarket...
4. https://twitter.com/fmamedia?lang=en
5. file:///tmp/foiextract20181227-2159-8fpt4o#
From: Manhattan Trust
Dear Vivienne Holm,
I believe you have received further information concerning the exact documents, dates and investigators involved in the context of my request.
In light of this new information, can you please confirm that my original request still stands...?
Yours sincerely,
Manhattan Trust
From: Manhattan Trust
Dear Vivienne Holm,
I believe that 3 .pdf documents were emailed to the FMA on Tuesday 26, June 2018 at 5:36 PM, and a further excel spreadsheet was emailed on the same day at 5:51 PM. Please confirm that my original request stands.
Yours sincerely,
Manhattan Trust
From: Vivienne Holm
Financial Markets Authority
Please see attached letter setting out our decision on your request for
information.
Ngā mihi nui,
Vivienne Holm
Vivienne Holm Senior Solicitor, Governance
T [DDI removed]
E [email address]
Level 2, 1 Grey Street, Wellington, 6011
PO Box 1179, Wellington [1]www.fma.govt.nz [2][IMG] [3][IMG]
6140, New Zealand [4][IMG] [5][IMG]
References
Visible links
1. file:///tmp/foiextract20181227-2159-1un9t5q#
2. https://www.linkedin.com/company/financi...
3. https://www.facebook.com/FinancialMarket...
4. https://twitter.com/fmamedia?lang=en
5. file:///tmp/foiextract20181227-2159-1un9t5q#
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