Banking - Canada Industry Competitors

Bank of Montreal is bilingual -- it speaks Canadian and American business. Also known as BMO Financial Group, the company is one of Canada's oldest and biggest banks. Serving individuals, government agencies, and businesses large and small, it has about 1,000 branches that provide deposits, mortgages and loans, life insurance, credit cards, investments, and wealth management services....

Clairvest Group is a merchant bank that invests its own capital and that of third-party investors as well. The bank invests primarily through its Clairvest Equity Partners Limited Partnership subsidiary, in both public and private entrepreneurial corporations....

HSBC Bank Canada is one of the largest foreign-owned banks in Canada. Through more than 170 locations, the bank offers a range of financial services, including deposit accounts, asset management, mutual funds, brokerage, insurance, and trust services. Its loan portfolio is dominated by residential mortgages and real estate loans to businesses and government entities....

Vancouver City Savings Credit Union (Vancity for short) puts its money where its mouth is. The largest credit union in Canada, Vancity boasts some 330,000 members and has more than 50 branches in Vancouver, Victoria, and surrounding areas of British Columbia....

On hard ground or snow, Arctic Cat growls with speed. The company manufactures and markets all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), snowmobiles, and related products and accessories. The company sells its four-wheel model ATVs under the Arctic Cat name for uses ranging from commercial to recreation....

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) is both Canadian and imperial when it comes to growing its business. CIBC has more than 1,000 branches offering a range of consumer and business services, including deposits, loans, brokerage, and mutual funds. It operates in two main segments: CIBC Retail Markets (consumer and small business banking, credit cards, wealth management) and CIBC World Markets (investment banking, capital markets, and merchant banking services)....

With all of Canada's Big Six banks firmly entrenched in the eastern provinces (and increasingly moving south of the border into the US), Canadian Western Bank remains committed to the Great West. It offers banking products and services to businesses and individuals through more than 30 branch offices in western Canada; almost 90% of its loans are made in British Columbia and Alberta....

Established in 1944, Credit Union Central of British Columbia (Central) is the central banker for some 50 independent credit unions in Canada's western province. With more than $5 billion in assets under management, Central offers conventional banking products, liquidity services, and payment processing products to its customers, as well as business consulting assistance and online banking services (via MemberDirect)....

Un dollar gardé est un dollar gagné at Laurentian Bank of Canada. The bank offers commercial and consumer banking services from more than 150 branches located mostly in Quebec. Residential mortgages account for nearly half the bank's loan portfolio; personal loans are more than a third....

The spirit of je me souviens is alive at Mouvement des caisses Desjardins (aka Desjardins Group), but Quebec's largest financial institution faces modern bank competition. Founded in 1900 to serve working-class Quebecois, the company runs more than 500 local cooperatives (caisses populaires) and credit unions (caisses d'economie) that provide retail financial services through about 900 service centers in Quebec....

What's the bank for the Quebecois? The National Bank of Canada says, "C'est moi!" The bank offers retail and commercial services through about 450 branches in Canada, primarily in Quebec. The company's offerings include deposits and loans, credit cards, and insurance....

Pacific & Western Credit Corp. is the holding company for Pacific & Western Bank of Canada (PWBank), a self-proclaimed non-traditional bank that specializes in providing financing for municipal governments, schools, hospitals, and other public sector clients across Canada....

Royal Bank of Canada sits enthroned as Canada's banking monarch. Also known as RBC Financial Group -- and Canada's largest financial institution -- the bank operates in three segments: Canadian consumer, which includes banking, investments, and insurance; international consumer (banking and investments in the US and abroad); and global wholesale (capital markets and corporate and commercial banking)....

Nope. The Bank of Nova Scotia (aka Scotiabank) isn't based in Nova Scotia. Although founded in that province in 1832, it moved to Toronto in 1900. One of Canada's Big Five banks (along with Royal Bank of Canada, TD Bank, Bank of Montreal, and CIBC), Scotiabank provides retail, corporate, and investment banking services worldwide....

The Toronto-Dominion Bank wants to score financial TDs at home and abroad. Also known as TD Bank or TD Financial Group, and one of Canada's largest banks, it provides retail banking services under the TD Canada Trust banner, including checking and savings accounts, loans, credit cards, and mortgages, through some 1,000 branches....