Canadian Banker articles from January 1998

Canadian Banker archives from January 1998

It's about time. (communications program of the Canadian Bankers Association)(Editorial)
January 1, 1998... 'You'll be hearing more from us." That's the last line of a new television commercial from the Canadian Bankers Association that will be seen across the country in January and February. It's the opening salvo of a long-range communications...

WTO agreement opens access to world markets. (World Trade Organization)
January 1, 1998... A new World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on financial services will provide Canadian banks with increased market access and clearer rules for doing business overseas. Negotiators finalized the agreement, which covers banking, insurance,...

Banks work to remove barriers to basic services. (part 2)
January 1, 1998... This is the second of a series of articles about helping low-income Canadians gain access to basic banking services. The first article, in the November/December issue, described the difficulties faced by the 650,000 adult Canadians - virtually...

Economically minded. (CIBC senior economist Linda Nazareth)
January 1, 1998... Who says economics is dismal? This banker finds it a fascinating subject and career. Some might consider economics a dry, even tedious subject. But to Linda Nazareth, a senior economist at CIBC, the so-called dismal science is anything but...

Can we talk? (Canadian Bankers Association's long-range communications program to improve public approval rating of the industry)(Special Report: Building a Better Understanding)(Cover Story)
January 1, 1998... Canada's banks are among the world's best, by most standards of performance, but public approval of the industry is slumping. What we have here is a failure to communicate. Senior bankers accept the blame for that. Now they're going to do...

What Canadians want to know. (economic education and information needs)(Special Report: Building a Better Understanding)(Cover Story)
January 1, 1998... Central to the industry's new communications strategy is a vision of how the banks can help Canadians get the information they need to manage their finances better. A CBA-sponsored survey shows what that is. Most of us think we understand at...

Knowledge: the key to economic success.(Special Report: Building a Better Understanding)(Cover Story)
January 1, 1998... Many Canadians, unsettled and confused by rapid changes to their economic environment, know they must take control of their financial lives. They realize that knowledge is power - but where can they get it? In 1974, when the Canadian...

Breaking the ice. (Canadian Bankers Association's effort to improve communications with the public)(Special Report: Building a Better Understanding)(Cover Story)
January 1, 1998... With the launch of its new communications program, the banking industry is starting a conversation with Canadians in order to "build a better understanding." It has been said that a business can only succeed with the consent of the public....

Thoroughly modern Mondex. (trial runs for electronic cash cards in Guelph, Ontario)
January 1, 1998... Now that Canada's electronic cash card of choice has emerged, it won't be long before we say goodbye to those familiar black-striped cards. David Creech has been fairly preoccupied recently. The city administrator of Guelph, Ont., has had...

Plus ca change.... (Citizens Bank of Canada operates through telephones and computers)
January 1, 1998... In which our intrepid columnist searches for the cutting edge of virtual image-building. The banks are made of marble and their vaults are stuffed with silver. Or at least that's how they're described in the old protest song, sung, if memory...

Canadian profitability lags U.S. (stock exchange statistics)
January 1, 1998... Even though the price/earnings ratios of publicly traded corporations in Canada are close to U.S. levels, Canadian companies are clearly not as profitable as their American counterparts. The average return on equity for TSE 300 companies has...

Do bank mutual funds perform?
January 1, 1998... THE MYTH Many consumers believe that bank mutual funds just aren't as good as other types of funds on the market. There's an impression that bank funds aren't well managed, perform poorly compared to other funds, and offer less selection in...