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The Bank of Montreal has been paying dividends to share holders every year since 1829 (195 years ago), [13] Scotiabank since 1833 (191 years ago), [13] Toronto-Dominion Bank since 1857 (167 years ago), [14] Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce since 1868 (156 years ago) [15] and Royal Bank of Canada since 1870 (154 years ago) [16] respectively.
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Colonial Bank of Canada 1856 1863 Only operated in 1859, before it failed. [98] Commercial Bank of Canada 1831 1868 Founded in 1831 as the Commercial Bank of the Midland District, the name changed to the Commercial Bank of Canada in 1856. [99] Merged with the Merchants Bank in Montreal to form the Merchants' Bank of Canada. [100]
The Bank of Canada (BoC; French: Banque du Canada) is a Crown corporation and Canada's central bank. [4] Chartered in 1934 under the Bank of Canada Act , it is responsible for formulating Canada's monetary policy, [ 5 ] and for the promotion of a safe and sound financial system within Canada. [ 6 ]
In 1998, the Bank of Montreal proposed a merger with the Royal Bank of Canada around the same time that CIBC proposed to combine with the Toronto-Dominion Bank. [23] The banks argued that these mergers would enable them to compete globally with other financial institutions. [33] This would have left Canada with only three major national banks.
The Canadian banking industry includes 20 domestic banks, 24 foreign bank subsidiaries and 22 foreign bank branches operating in Canada. [9] ATB Financial , a financial institution owned by the Government of Alberta , and Canada's many credit unions, are not included in this list.
Virtual banking first became a possibility in 1996 with the Bank of Montreal's mbanx. mbanx was released at the very beginning of the internet banking revolution in Canada and was the first full-service online bank [26] Also in 1996, RBC started providing banking information online and had the first personal computer banking software released ...
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC; French: Banque Royale du Canada) is a Canadian multinational financial services company and the largest bank in Canada by market capitalization. The bank serves over 20 million clients and has more than 100,000 employees worldwide. [ 2 ]