For what it’s worth, 9 months latter chrisw, I’ve been non-resident for many years and also have an account with ASB and had no issues

However, Snow Leopard (& other non-residents) I am a bit concerned by the growing trend of non-residents being excluded from open offers and rights issues – appreciate this is mainly for regulatory reasons, but the companies concerned seem to have no problem accommodating their overseas institutional clients (no surprise there…)

Are you also facing that same issue, or do you use a NZ address with the registrars?