詹姆斯·米勒获任新西兰金融市场管理局主席
新西兰政府宣布，任命资深企业董事詹姆斯·米勒（James Miller）出任金融市场管理局（Financial Markets Authority，FMA）主席，任期五年，自2026年8月6日起生效。
财政部长尼古拉·威利斯（Nicola Willis）与商业和消费者事务部长卡梅伦·布鲁尔（Cameron Brewer）今日共同宣布了这一任命。
威利斯表示，米勒是新西兰最受尊敬的企业治理专家之一，过去近12年来一直积极推动新西兰资本市场改革与复兴。
“詹姆斯·米勒是新西兰最具声望的董事之一。我很高兴由他领导金融市场管理局，在新阶段发挥更重要的作用。”威利斯说。
她指出，米勒在资本市场、企业治理以及金融监管领域拥有丰富经验，曾担任新西兰证券交易所（NZX）主席，同时也是金融市场管理局成立初期的首批董事之一，这些经历使他成为带领FMA扩展职责的理想人选。
威利斯强调，所有拥有KiwiSaver退休储蓄账户的新西兰人，都与资本市场息息相关。
“资本市场决定了个人储蓄如何转化为支持企业发展、新住房建设以及国家基础设施建设的资金。然而，新西兰资本市场仍然规模有限，许多新西兰人因此错失机会。”
她表示，政府目前正在推进一系列资本市场改革措施，包括降低企业融资成本、减少上市和融资过程中的复杂程序，鼓励成长型企业选择在新西兰上市，而不是转向海外市场。
政府也正在更新过去针对不同经济环境制定的监管规则，例如提高气候相关信息披露要求的适用门槛，使数百家原本并不适合承担此类义务的企业免于相关要求。
威利斯表示，更成熟、更具深度的资本市场将有助于提高新西兰人的KiwiSaver退休储蓄水平，并推动工资增长，这是政府经济发展计划的重要组成部分。
商业和消费者事务部长卡梅伦·布鲁尔表示，一个公平、高效、透明的金融市场，能够增强新西兰人投资的信心，也能让企业更有动力扩大经营。
“促进企业、投资者和消费者以更有信心、更充分了解信息的方式参与市场，是金融市场管理局成立的重要使命。只有实现这一目标，我们才能建立不仅监管有效，而且真正成功的金融市场。”
布鲁尔指出，随着消费者信贷监管职能从商业委员会（Commerce Commission）转移至FMA，金融市场管理局如今已成为新西兰唯一负责金融市场行为监管的机构。
“这意味着FMA需要在保护消费者权益与保持市场活力之间取得平衡，让金融市场既安全可靠，又能够推动经济增长。这是一项艰巨任务，而詹姆斯·米勒正是完成这一使命的合适人选。”
布鲁尔同时感谢史蒂文·巴迪（Steven Bardy）此前担任FMA代理主席期间所作出的贡献。
此外，布鲁尔还宣布任命特雷弗·詹斯（Trevor Janes）加入金融市场管理局董事会，任期两年。
詹斯曾担任新西兰证券交易所独立监管机构NZ RegCo的首任主席，在投资管理、金融监管以及上市公司治理方面拥有丰富经验。
米勒和詹斯两人均获授新西兰功绩勋章（Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit，ONZM）。其中，米勒因其在企业治理领域的贡献获此荣誉；詹斯则因其对商业和公共部门治理的贡献获此殊荣。
布鲁尔表示：
“选任合适的人担任关键职位，是政府修复基础、建设未来的一部分，目标是确保新西兰金融市场真正服务于依赖它的个人和企业。”
James Miller appointed FMA chair
Finance Minister Nicola Willis and Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Cameron Brewer today announced the appointment of James Miller as chair of the Financial Markets Authority (FMA).
“James Miller is one of this country’s most respected directors, and for the best part of 12 years he has been making the case for a renaissance in New Zealand’s capital markets. I am delighted to appoint him to lead the FMA,” Finance Minister Nicola Willis says.
“His expertise in capital markets, corporate governance and financial regulation, including his time chairing the NZX, and as an inaugural director of the FMA, makes him exactly the leader the FMA needs as it steps into its expanded role.
“Every New Zealander with a KiwiSaver account has a stake in our capital markets. They are how your savings become finance for a growing business, a new house, or the infrastructure this country needs. But our markets are too shallow, and New Zealanders miss out because of it.
“That is why this Government is undertaking a programme of capital markets reform. We are cutting the cost and complexity of raising capital here, so growing companies can list in New Zealand rather than looking offshore. Rules written for a different era are being modernised, with a higher climate reporting threshold taking hundreds of businesses out of requirements never designed for them.
“Deeper markets mean stronger KiwiSaver balances and higher wages. It is a core part of our economic plan, and getting the right leadership at the FMA is central to seeing it through.
Mr Miller has been appointed for a five-year term, starting 6 August.
“A fair, efficient and transparent financial market gives Kiwis the confidence to invest and businesses the confidence to grow,” says Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Cameron Brewer.
“Promoting the confident and informed participation of businesses, investors and consumers is core to what the FMA was set up to do. Delivering on that is how we build markets that are not just well policed, but successful.
“With the transfer of consumer credit regulation from the Commerce Commission, the FMA is now the single financial markets conduct regulator. That means balancing strong protection for consumers with markets dynamic enough to drive economic growth. It is a demanding brief, and James Miller is the right person to deliver it.”
Minister Brewer thanked Steven Bardy for acting as FMA chair.
Minister Brewer also announced the appointment of Trevor Janes to the FMA board for a two-year term. Mr Janes was the inaugural chair of NZ RegCo, the NZX’s independent regulatory arm, and brings significant capital markets expertise including in investment management and regulation, and as chair of NZX-listed companies.
James Miller and Trevor Janes are both Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit, Mr Miller for services to corporate governance and Mr Janes for services to business and public sector governance.
“Getting the right people into these roles is part of fixing the basics and building the future, so New Zealand’s financial markets work for the people and businesses that rely on them,” Mr Brewer says.
