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The Alberta Treasury Branches rebranded in January 2002 as ATB Financial in an effort to gain stronger brand recognition in urban areas such as Calgary and Edmonton. By 2002 ATB Financial controlled 15 per cent of the province's retail banking, but lagged in the cities with seven per cent in Calgary and eight per cent in Edmonton. [ 56 ]
A notable anomaly of this era is Canada's only provincially owned "bank" (though not called that for legal reasons) Alberta Treasury Branches, created in 1937. The Bank of Canada, originally privately owned, became a Crown corporation in 1938. [6] [11] New crown Corporations were also created throughout much of the mid-century. [3]
ATB Financial (formerly Alberta Treasury Branches) is a Crown corporation owned by the Alberta provincial government that was originally established in 1938 after the province's attempt to impose social credit policies on federally-regulated banks failed.
Attempts to implement social credit economic theory; issuance of prosperity certificates; public works and debt relief programs to aid victims of the Depression; creation of Alberta Treasury Branches financial services institution, consolidated school districts into school divisions, imposed regulation on the oil and gas fields outside Calgary ...
Treasury Board and Finance: Alberta Employment Pension Tribunal Regulatory/Adjudicative Hears certain appeals made by pension plan administrators, and can inquire into, hear, and determine all matters relating to decisions made by the Superintendent of Pensions. Treasury Board and Finance: Alberta Insurance Council Regulatory/Adjudicative
Thwarted in its attempt to gain control of Alberta's private banks, Aberhart's government gained a foothold in the province's financial sector by creating the Alberta Treasury Branches (ATB) in 1938. [ citation needed ] ATB has become a lasting legacy of Social Credit Party policies in Alberta, operating as of 2017 [update] as an orthodox ...
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Alberta has 19 cities that had a cumulative population of 3,023,641 (not including the population in the Saskatchewan portion of Lloydminster) and an average population of 159,139 in the 2021 Census of Population. [2] Alberta's largest and smallest cities are Calgary and Wetaskiwin, with populations of 1,306,784 and 12,594, respectively. [2]