Canadian Banker articles

Recent articles from Canadian Banker

Helping grads ascend Parliament Hill.(Parliamentary Internship Programme)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Growing up in Aylmer, Que., across the Ottawa River from the nation's capital, Alexandria Sjoman has spent most of her 24 years living near Canada's political power base. Sjoman recently got a first-hand look at how it works when she was one of 10 graduates selected for the...

C.D. Howe Institute names first CBA Scholar.(Canadian Bankers' Association)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The C.D. Howe Institute has appointed David Laidler, one of Canada's leading experts in monetary policy, to the newly created position of Canadian Bankers Association (CBA) Scholar. As CBA Scholar, Prof. Laidler will examine issues in the areas of monetary and fiscal policy that the...

Title insurance wins growing acceptance with banks.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Since its introduction to the Canadian residential mortgage market in 1991, the use of title insurance has increased significantly both in frequency and variety. Title insurance - an insured statement of the condition of "title," or the right to property ownership - is now widely accepted...

Mortgage lenders grapple with rise of e-competition.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The once-staid mortgage financing business is starting to shake up and wake up to the challenge posed by aggressive new entrants such as virtual banks. That was the general tenor of a Toronto conference sponsored recently by Vancouver-based mortgage administration specialist Plexus Systems...

Editor's Note.(former Canadian Banker editor Brian O'Brien dies)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
September 22, 2000... Revising the rules In June 1996, the federal government issued a white paper which, among other things, established a Task Force on the Future of the Canadian Financial Services Sector, later known as the MacKay task force. This set in motion an extraordinarily extensive review of...