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Home Capital Bank Run Continues As New Leadership Announced
– walletpop.ca
The Toronto-based mortgage company says its new chair is Brenda Eprile, who joined the Home Capital board last year. She replaces Kevin Smith, who will remain on Home Capital’s board of directors.
Eprile was a senior member of the Ontario Securities Commission staff prior to beginning a 17-year career as a consultant focused on regulatory affairs.
Signage outside the Home Capital Group Inc. headquarters office in Toronto, Ontario, Thursday, May 4, 2017. (Photo: Cole Burston/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The company is also adding two former CEOs of major Ontario pension funds — Claude Lamoureux from the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Paul Hagis of OMERS — as well as Sharon Sallows, a trustee for two major real estate trusts…
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– theglobeandmail.com
Wynne weighs in on concerns over conflicts with lender Home Capital
– canadianbusiness.com
Home Capital is a Toronto-based lender under investigation by the Ontario Securities Commission, which alleges that the company, two former CEOs and the current CFO broke the law in their handling of a scandal involving falsified loan applications.
Wynne was asked about Kevin Smith, who is the CEO of St. Joseph’s Health System in the Hamilton and the Niagara areas. Smith was also on the board of the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) and chairman of the board of Home Capital, until recently.
On April 27, Home Capital announced HOOPP had agreed to provide the company a $2-billion loan and, at that time, Smith advised HOOPP he was stepping down from its board due to that potential conflict. He has since resigned as chair of Home Capital, but remains on the company’s board.
The Progressive Conservatives have questioned whether relationships between the boards of Home Capital, HOOPP, and the provincial government and its agencies are inappropriate…