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The main Montreal branch of the Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest bank. Toronto's financial district. This is a list of banks in Canada, including chartered banks, credit unions, trusts, and other financial services companies that offer banking services and may be popularly referred to as "banks".
The number of independent banks shrank further during 2008: Northern Rock was nationalised by the UK Government (and is now owned by Virgin Money), followed by Bradford & Bingley; Alliance & Leicester was acquired by Santander, who merged it into Santander UK.
Historically, trusts were one of the four main financial institutions in Canada, along with banks, insurance companies, and investment brokerages. [1] The country's first trust company was the Toronto General Trusts Corporation , which received its charter in 1872. [ 2 ]
This is a list of notable financial institutions worldwide that were severely affected by the Great Recession centered in 2007–2009. The list includes banks (including savings and loan associations, commercial banks and investment banks), building societies and insurance companies that were: taken over or merged with another financial ...
During the peak of the 2008 financial crisis, the Bank of Canada, along with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and the US Federal Reserve provided up to $114 billion of liquidity support to Canadian banks. Of this amount, $69 billion was part of the CMHC mortgage insurance program, a facility set up in 1954 to handle such situations.
Aareal Bank, Wiesbaden, Germany; Aargauische Kantonalbank, Aarau, Switzerland; Abacus Federal Savings Bank, New York, United States; AB Bank, Dhaka, Bangladesh; AB ...
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Credit unions have a history of innovation in Canadian financial services. Here are some of the products and services that credit unions were first to market: [12] First financial institutions to lend to women in their own names (in the 1960s) First to offer daily interest savings; First full-service ABMs; First fully functional online banking