Canadian Banker articles from January 1997

Canadian Banker archives from January 1997

Your future is in your hands. (employment at Canadian banks)(Editorial)
January 1, 1997... A century ago, bank employees spent countless hours laboriously keeping track of customers' transactions and account balances by hand. Their arithmetical skills must have been superb, with all that practice. When adding machines and similar...

Cultivating growth. (Bank of Montreal's executive Vice-Pres. Terry Jackson)
January 1, 1997... A broker turned banker aims to blend the best of BMO's banking and brokerage cultures. Terry Jackson is not a typical banker. But then Jackson, a 49-year-old Montreal native who wears two senior-management hats one as president and chief...

How safe is your job? (cultivating careers at Canadian banks)(includes related article on Royal Bank's national telephone job-listing service and career management tool)(Cover Story)
January 1, 1997... It used to be that any competent banker could take a lifetime career at the bank pretty much for granted. Not any more. That doesn't mean you can't look forward to a long banking career. It does mean that you, not the bank, are in control of your...

Re-inventing the bank. (using technology to better serve bank customers) (includes related article on the current revolution that is sweeping through the Canadian banking industry)
January 1, 1997... "Banking is essential to a modern economy; banks are not!" says a U.S. report. To survive, banks must make themselves essential to the people who matter: their customers. The tool of choice: technology. As anyone with a bank card knows,...

All for a good cause. (volunteerism at Canadian banks)
January 1, 1997... When there's a chance to help others in their local communities, banks and bankers don't just donate money - they also give generously of their time, expertise and enthusiasm. Snow blew so hard it obscured the line of scrimmage. Grey Cup fans...

Busting out all over. (avoiding bankruptcies)
January 1, 1997... Behind the soaring rate of personal bankruptcies lie thousands of individual tragedies. But there may be far too many avoidable bankruptcies as well. Halifax bankruptcy trustee Paul Goodman reaches across his desk to a bankruptcy file he has...

What's in store for the retail sector? (Canadian banks and merchandisers)
January 1, 1997... These are turbulent times for merchandisers in Canada, and identifying potential winners and losers is tougher than ever. That's why banks are developing sophisticated new ways of assessing the prospects of their retailing clients. Canadian...

Saving for retirement.
January 1, 1997... With the aging of the population, more and more people want and need to save for retirement. Conventional wisdom says that their money will grow most quickly if the bulk of it is invested in equities. A look at returns over the past 10 years...