Networking Breakfast (Wellington): Rebuilding an Industry’s Reputation

Networking Breakfast (Wellington): Rebuilding an Industry's Reputation

The Networking

We invite you to take a couple of hours out of your day to connect with others in the industry to discuss high level topics of real importance, develop new relationships and gain critical information. This is a rare opportunity to network with other CEOs and senior management professionals from charities, associations and other non-profit organisations. Ample opportunity will be given for you to discuss issues and network with others.

The Topic

The Financial Services Federation (“FSF”) is the industry body representing responsible and ethical finance and leasing companies in New Zealand. The FSF has nearly fifty members and affiliates providing financing, leasing, investment, banking and insurance products and services to over 1 million New Zealand consumers and businesses. The FSF’s affiliate members include internationally recognised legal and consulting partners. Come along to hear how the FSF has rebuilt its own brand and that of its members following the tumultuous events of the Global Financial Crisis.

In 2006 the first of the finance company collapses in New Zealand occurred.  By the time the GFC had eased off into a global recession, 65 finance companies had either collapsed, been placed into liquidation or gone into moratorium and $9 billion of New Zealand investor funds had been wiped out.  So the Government swung into action and a “once in a generation” financial legislative reform began.

Attend AuSAE’s July Networking Breakfast to hear how Lyn’s members weathered the storm and what the FSF has done on their behalf to rebuild the sector’s tattered reputation in the minds of both the regulators and the public.

 The Speaker    

Lyn McMorran is the Executive Director of the Financial Services Federation Inc. (www.fsf.org.nz).  Lyn has had a long and distinguished career as a financial services professional.  Prior to joining the FSF in 2012, Lyn was Area Manager for Westpac’s Private Bank in the Lower North and South Islands. 

A Certified Financial Planner, Lyn is a past President of the Institute of Financial Advisers of New Zealand and is passionate about increasing New Zealanders’ financial literacy standards and ensuring that they have access to appropriate and affordable financial advice and products.  Lyn holds a Graduate Certificate in Management and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Studies (Personal Financial Planning) and is a Fellow of both the Institute of Financial Advisers and the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, a Trustee of the Skylight Trust and a Commissioner for the Insurance and Savings Ombudsman disputes resolution scheme.