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• FSP
  • About The FSPR
    • What is the FSPR?
      • Who must register as a financial service provider?
      • Who does not have to register?
      • Who cannot register?
    • Who's involved in the FSPR?
    • Your account
      • Registering as a user of the site
      • Updating your user account
      • Terms of use
      • Administrators' options
      • Payment options
      • Invoices & fees
      • Using your personalised dashboard
    • Searching the FSPR
    • Authority Management
      • Who can have Authority
      • How to get Authority
      • Who can grant or revoke Authority
    • Register an FSP
      • Registering an individual as an FSP
      • Registering a New Zealand registered entity as an FSP
      • Registering any other entity or body as an FSP
    • Authorised Financial Advisers
      • About your application
      • Updating AFA details
    • Maintain a registered FSP
      • Filing an annual confirmation
        • Filing your annual confirmation online
      • Updating FSP details and financial services
      • Qualification changes
      • Leaving your organisation
    • Deregistration & Reregistration
      • Deregistration
      • Reregistration
    • Dispute Resolution Schemes
    • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
      • Searching
        • How do you search the register?
      • Registration - who?
        • Who must register as a financial service provider?
        • Who does not have to register?
        • Who cannot register?
        • Who is a controlling owner?
        • Who is a senior manager?
        • Financial advisers operating through companies
        • Promoters of securities offered to the public
        • Companies (and others) providing a financial service to a related body corporate
        • Individual trustees of a trust or registered superannuation scheme
        • How do companies in a QFE group structure register on the FSPR?
        • Do I need to register as an individual if my employer is registered?
      • Registration - what?
        • What is a financial service?
        • What are the prerequisites for registration?
        • Do I need to join a dispute resolution scheme?
        • How does a dispute resolution scheme work?
        • What is required in the application for registration?
        • How much does registration cost?
        • What information will show on the register?
        • What is deregistration?
        • What is the annual confirmation?
        • What happens if I don’t register?
        • What do the criminal history checks cover?
        • I am completing two different registrations, do I need to pay for the criminal history check twice?
      • Registration - when?
        • When does the Financial Service Providers Register open?
        • When do I have to register by?
      • Registration - how and where?
        • Where do I register?
        • Why do I need an igovt logon to register?
        • How does the igovt logon work?
        • Can an applicant provide their own criminal history check?
      • Authorisation of financial advisers
      • Contacts
  • News & Updates
    • News
      • New Financial Advisers Regime now fully in force
      • New annual confirmation service available now!
      • Canterbury earthquake information
      • New Ministry to be created
    • Public notices
    • Podcasts
      • Create an igovt logon
      • Getting a new igovt password
      • About podcasts
        • What is a podcast?
        • What is an RSS feed?
        • How to listen to a podcast
        • How to subscribe to the Companies Office podcast service
    • Discussion Documents
  • Help & support
    • Using the FSPR
      • User accounts and igovt
      • Registering an FSP
      • Searching the FSPR
      • Making changes to an FSP
    • Financial services - definitions
      • Financial advisers and financial adviser services
      • Deposit taker
        • What are debt securities?
        • Who is an issuer?
      • Registered bank
      • Contributory mortgage broker
      • Participating in the offer of a security to the public as an issuer
        • What is an equity security?
        • What is a participatory security?
        • What is an interest in a superannuation scheme?
      • Trustee of debt securities
      • Unit trustee
        • What is a unit trust?
      • Superannuation trustee
        • What is a superannuation scheme?
        • Exemption from the need to register
      • Statutory supervisor of participatory securities
      • Promoter of securities offered to the public
      • Manager of a participatory security or unit trust
      • Providing credit under a credit contract
        • What is a credit contract?
        • Exemption for the interim provision of credit
        • Does my entity need to register if it is only servicing its outstanding loans?
    • Fees
    • Resources
      • Registration guides
        • Setting up a user account on the FSPR [520 KB PDF]
        • Registration application guide for a New Zealand Entity [447 KB PDF]
        • Registration application guide as an individual [494 KB PDF]
      • Fast facts about FSPR
        • Fast facts about FSPR: for consumers
        • Fast facts about FSPR for Financial Service Providers
      • Registration flowcharts
        • Registration flowchart - for individuals
        • Registration flowchart - for entities
      • Business Update 2010 presentation
      • Training
        • Register your interest
      • Videos
        • Creating an igovt logon
        • Getting a new igovt password
      • Podcasts
    • Ask a question
      • Searching the FSPR
      • Registration - who?
      • Registration - what?
      • Registration - when?
      • Registration - how and where?
      • User accounts and igovt
    • Technical support
      • Optimum software and site settings
      • Remote assistance
      • Installing PDF viewer software
      • What is RSS?
      • What is Skype?
      • Technical FAQs
        • Is your page not displaying correctly?
        • Unable to view documents on the website?
        • Old browsers not compatible
        • How do you clear your temporary internet files?
    • Complaints about FSPs
    • Contact us
  • Online Services - Do It Now
    • Dashboard
    • My account
      • User settings
      • Organisation settings
      • Invoices & fees
    • Register an FSP
      • NZ Registered Entity
      • Individual
      • Other Entity
    • Search for FSP
      • Advanced search
    • Update my FSP
      • Change details