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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.
Traders Bank of Canada 1885 1912 Acquired by the Royal Bank of Canada. [167] Union Bank of Canada: 1865 1925 Founded as the Union Bank of Lower Canada, the name changed to the Union Bank of Canada in 1886. [168] Merged into the Royal Bank of Canada. [169] Union Bank of Halifax: 1856 1910 Merged into the Royal Bank of Canada. [170] Union Bank of ...
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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.
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]
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 ...