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Are financial services firms prepared for onslaught of new regulation?

Barbara Shecter wrote 2 hours ago: More than 25% of Canadian financial services providers are either “not very” or “not at all” prepare … more →

Tags: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection A, financial regulation, Randstad Canada

Unique Broadband Systems, Look Communications continue to send different messages

Barry Critchley wrote 4 hours ago: About four years after the $80-million sale of its major asset, about three years after a proxy batt … more →

Tags: Look Communications Inc.

Going gets tougher for TD as mortgage lending slows

John Greenwood wrote 5 hours ago: One of the important numbers that banks disclose is something called the net interest margin, often … more →

Tags: FP Street Features, TD Bank Financial Group

In final year as Canada's top bank watchdog, Julie Dickson will make no apologies

Theresa Tedesco wrote 21 hours ago: Canada’s top banking regulator is leaving when her seven-year term expires next year, marking … more →

Tags: FP Street Features, julie dickson, Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions

Flaherty says Ottawa to move ahead with single securities regulator plan even without provinces

Gordon Isfeld wrote 22 hours ago: OTTAWA — Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says the federal government will again push ahead with the cr … more →

Tags: Economy, Jim Flaherty, Ottawa

Assessing Detour Gold's $153-million bought deal

Barry Critchley wrote 22 hours ago: There’s a lot of wouldas, couldas and shouldas about the $153-million bought deal financing for Deto … more →

Court ruling gives mixed message in Unique Broadband Systems dispute

Barry Critchley wrote 1 day ago: Granted, it ain’t over till it’s over, but there has been something of a mixed message delivered in … more →

Tags: Jolian Investments Ltd., Look Communications Inc.

Debt financing by pension funds a steadily growing business

Barry Critchley wrote 1 day ago: One day after OPB Finance Trust raised $250-million of nine year debt at 2.90%, more information has … more →

Tags: OMERS Realty Corp., Pensions

BRP raises $262.3-million in largest Canadian IPO this year

Nicolas Van Praet wrote 1 day ago: MONTREAL – Snowmobile maker BRP Inc. has raised $262.3-million in the largest initial public offerin … more →

Tags: Investing, BRP Inc., IPOs

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan to open Hong Kong office

Armina Ligaya wrote 1 day ago: The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan says it open up an office in Hong Kong within months, as it … more →

Tags: Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Pensions

Detour Gold returns to the market

Barry Critchley wrote 1 day ago: Talk about a blot on its copybook. For about three and a half years ended mid-2012, Detour Gold Corp … more →

Tags: Detour Gold Corp

Canada's banking sector can't get 'too complacent', says Scotiabank chief

John Greenwood wrote 1 day ago: There’s plenty of avenues for growth in the banking sector despite the challenging economy and … more →

Tags: Canadian economy, ING Group NV, Rick Waugh, Scotia Group Inc.

OPB Finance Trust is latest pension fund to issue debt

Barry Critchley wrote 2 days ago: Less than a dozen years back, pension funds weren’t in the habit of raising long-term capital by iss … more →

Tags: Ontario Pension Board

BMO taps U.S. ambassador to Canada for vice chairman role

John Greenwood wrote 2 days ago: Bank of Montreal has snagged David Jacobson, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, as its next vice chair. … more →

Tags: News, BMO FINANCIAL GROUP, David Jacobson

Julie Dickson, top banking watchdog, to step down in 2014

Barbara Shecter wrote 2 days ago: Julie Dickson indicated Tuesday that she will not seek another term as Superintendent of Canada’s to … more →

Tags: financial services sector, julie dickson, Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions

Sustained low rates raise risks for Canada's banks: OSFI's Dickson

Bloomberg News wrote 2 days ago: Julie Dickson, Canada’s banking regulator, said the current period of low interest rates threatens t … more →

Tags: Investing, financial services sector, julie dickson, Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, Royal Bank of Canada

Canada spawns its own breed of investor activism

Barbara Shecter wrote 2 days ago: Investor activism is clearly in a period of resurgence, and Canada has attracted at least its fair s … more →

Tags: Investing, Bill Ackman, FP Street Features, Shareholder Activism

JPMorgan's Dimon set to face shareholder reckoning over dual roles

The New York Times wrote 3 days ago: Jamie Dimon and the 10 other directors of JPMorgan Chase take the stage in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, … more →

Tags: Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co

Nigel Wright, who gave Senator $90,000, broke cardinal rule of crisis management

Theresa Tedesco wrote 5 days ago: Any day now, Prime Minister Stephen Harper should appear before the Canadian public with that chaste … more →

Tags: Mike Duffy, Nigel Wright, Stephen Harper


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