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Banking in Canada began to migrate in earnest from colonial overseas banking operations to a local banking system with the founding of the Bank of Montreal in 1817. [6] Other banks soon followed and began business, and after a lengthy approval process began unregulated banking business.
The main Montreal branch of the Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest bank. Toronto's financial district. This is a list of banks in Canada, including chartered banks, credit unions, trusts, and other financial services companies that offer banking services and may be popularly referred to as "banks".
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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 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]
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 ...
Legislation was adopted under the federal Bank Act in 2012 to allow for the creation of federal credit unions. On July 1, 2016, the Caisse populaire acadienne ltée (later rebranded as UNI Financial Cooperation), with its 155,000 members, became the first federal credit union in Canada. [3]
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