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Scotiabank CEO downplays concerns raised over Canadian debt levels
– canadianbusiness.com
TORONTO _ Scotiabank’s chief executive says he disagrees with recent red flags raised over Canada’s high debt levels by an international body, and that he is “comfortable” with the lender’s risk profile.
Brian Porter told a University of Toronto conference that he had a “different perspective” from the International Monetary Fund’s recent warning and said they should look at the “other side of the balance sheet” which has “kept pace or outgrown the size of the debt.”
“I am very comfortable with our risk profile,” he said Wednesday.
His comments come after the IMF in October said that Canada’s high debt levels, and higher-than-average pressure on Canadian households’ ability to pay down that debt in the private non-financial sector, leaves its economy more sensitive to tighter financial conditions and weaker economic activity.
And last month, an international financial group owned by the world’s central banks said Canada’s credit-to-gross-domestic-product and debt-service ratios show early warning signs of potential risk to the domestic banking system in the coming years…
Brian Porter told a University of Toronto conference that he had a “different perspective” from the International Monetary Fund’s recent warning and said they should look at the “other side of the balance sheet” which has “kept pace or outgrown the size of the debt.”
“I am very comfortable with our risk profile,” he said Wednesday.
His comments come after the IMF in October said that Canada’s high debt levels, and higher-than-average pressure on Canadian households’ ability to pay down that debt in the private non-financial sector, leaves its economy more sensitive to tighter financial conditions and weaker economic activity.
And last month, an international financial group owned by the world’s central banks said Canada’s credit-to-gross-domestic-product and debt-service ratios show early warning signs of potential risk to the domestic banking system in the coming years…
