Mina Martin

Mina Martin

Mina Martin is a journalist at Key Media, where she has been covering the financial services industry since 2016. She now focuses on the mortgage and lending sector across Australian Broker and New Zealand Adviser — reporting on non-bank lending, reverse mortgages, property market trends, securitisation, and the evolving role of technology in broking. Earlier in her Key Media career, she reported for Insurance Business Australia and New Zealand and served as a global profiles writer.

Before joining Key Media, Mina worked as a development editor at a leading educational publisher, authoring published social studies textbooks and magazine features. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication, majoring in Journalism with a minor in Speech Communication, and a Master of Education majoring in English — a dual foundation that sharpens her investigative rigour and ability to translate complex financial subject matter into clear, authoritative prose.

Outside the newsroom, she is an avid reader of non-fiction and a devoted fan of dramas and variety shows — a curiosity for real stories and human behaviour that informs the depth and accessibility she brings to every piece she writes.

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Squirrel bolsters leadership team with two senior appointments

The NZ mortgage broker adds a new COO and head of legal as it targets growth

Squirrel bolsters leadership team with two senior appointments

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Fiscal discipline delivers an earlier surplus — but the rate environment remains the key challenge.

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Westpac slashes fixed mortgage rates

Lower funding costs trigger price cuts across the board

Westpac slashes fixed mortgage rates

The case for trading up while the market is soft

The conditions keeping movers on the sidelines are the same ones making the trade-up cheaper

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NZ GDP: solid before the oil shock, uncertain after

GDP data confirms broad-based growth in Q1, but the clock has already moved on

NZ GDP: solid before the oil shock, uncertain after

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$4.3 billion in applicants. None have bought yet.

Golden Visa migrants are arriving — and spending big before they buy

RBNZ rewrites the rules for every deposit taker in New Zealand

Banks, credit unions, non-banks — all under the same rules from 2028

RBNZ rewrites the rules for every deposit taker in New Zealand

BNZ caught out: nine-year interest miscalculation hits 23,000 customers

More than 23,000 accounts affected as FMA flags CoFI obligations for all lenders

BNZ caught out: nine-year interest miscalculation hits 23,000 customers