Canada has several major banks and many schedule II banks – but with rates and plans all over the map, it’s difficult to know where to bring your business. Our aim is to help you navigate Canada’s banking options to discover which one suits your needs best.
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Aggressive selling by banks? The answer’s in the fine print + MORE Apr 5th
Here’s a question for the TD bank boss and for his counterparts at other institutions as well: Why do you have to wait for an outsider’s input before reforming your sales culture? You do not have to dig deep to spot instances where customers are not being well served
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TD Canada Trust Hikes Prime Mortgage Rate – What’s Next? + MORE Nov 4th
It was a move that came as a shock to some but not was not a surprise to others. On November 1st, TD Canada Trust became the first of the big five banks in Canada to raise its prime mortgage rate from 2.7 per cent to 2.85 per cent. The news comes only two weeks after the implementation of brand-new.... More »
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Premarket: European shares hit two-week lows, yen rises as Japan backs stimulus
– theglobeandmail.com
Banks pull European shares lower after Asia retreats; yen, bond yields rise after Japan cabinet backs fiscal package
In December 1990 the world’s first website went online. Within the next six to eight years, a number of Canadian companies and government agencies made their first foray onto what everybody at the time was still calling the Information Superhighway.Those early and rudimentary web pages have long-since been replaced, but thanks to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, many early versions of those sites are at least partially preserved 20 years later. Below are screen captures of what they looked like at the time. These images might not show what the sites looked like on their very first day in existence, but are the earliest versions that were archived.
Let’s start with Canada’s big banks, which today face numerous challenges from financial technology companies. They were relatively quick to embrace the opportunities offered by the Internet—not to mention, clip art!
Royal Bank, December 1996
TD Bank, October 1996
Bank of Montreal, December 1998
CIBC, December 1996
Scotiabank, November 1996
Canada’s telecommunications companies were there, too—with Telus sporting the same logo it still uses today…
