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In 1975, Lombank Canada became Lombard NatWest Canada Ltd. and the following year the share capital passed from Lombard North Central to National Westminster Bank and it was renamed NatWest Canada Limited. NatWest Canada carried on business in the corporate sector until 1982, dealing largely with multinational and large Canadian companies. [3]
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 Government of Canada's Translation Bureau recommends using hyphens between groups; e.g. 250-555-0199. [2] Using the format specified by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Recommendation E.164 for telephone numbers, a Canadian number is written as +1NPANXXXXXX, with no spaces, hyphens, or other characters; e.g. +12505550199.
Canadian yellow-page listings indicated "Government Of Canada-See Government Listings In The Blue Pages"; in markets where the local telephone directory was a single volume, the blue pages and community information normally appeared after the alphabetical white-page listings but before the yellow pages advertising.
Canada's banks have high service levels and investments in technology. A report released by the office of the Minister of Finance in 2002 states "Canada has the highest number of ATMs per capita in the world and benefits from the highest penetration levels of electronic channels such as debit cards, Internet banking and telephone banking". [4]
Almost all Toronto Bell Canada landlines have area code 416, with 647-numbers allocated disproportionately to a growing mobile telephone market and to competitive local exchange carriers, such as cable and voice-over-IP services. Telephone numbers are portable, with few exceptions for specific services such as pocket pagers.
Canada is the world's eighth-largest economy as of 2022, with a nominal GDP of approximately US$2.2 trillion. [1] It is a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Group of Seven (G7), and is one of the world's top ten trading nations , with a highly globalized economy.
As cellular phones become more popular, there have been plans to release cell phone numbers into public 411 and reverse number directories via a separate Wireless telephone directory. However, these plans have come under opposition from internet based privacy advocate groups, and blogs, often citing privacy concerns.