All brains on deck — Denise Bourdôt

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Denise Bourdôt, Compliance Manager at PSC Connect New Zealand Ltd pursued her current role predicting that regulatory change would become increasingly significant in New Zealand’s insurance broking landscape. And she was right. She says the biggest change is the requirement...

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Anna Game-Lopata — ANZIIF senior writer

11 May 2026

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Denise Bourdôt, Compliance Manager at PSC Connect New Zealand Ltd pursued her current role predicting that regulatory change would become increasingly significant in New Zealand’s insurance broking landscape.

And she was right. She says the biggest change is the requirement to have a licence to practice before March 2023.

‘This includes everything that has to be done before you can even apply for the licence like documenting processes and systems, which is huge for a lot of businesses,’ Bourdôt says. ‘Many advisors have never had to do that before.’

However, most businesses will be applying for their full licence in 2022.

‘To date, roughly 280 businesses have applied for their full licence and about 230 have been approved, which leaves more than 1600 businesses that still have a transitional licence’.