Canadian Banker articles from July 1993

Canadian Banker archives from July 1993

Canadian unity gets a tune-up. (bankers Daine Hamilton, Earl Kirby and Susan Walsh promote Canadian unity through songs)
July 1, 1993... Singing banker Duaine Hamilton is promoting Canadian unity to the tune of his own compositions. And, with another vocal banker, Susan Walsh, they have released a cassette version of Duaine's "Canada for Me" and "What's Wrong with Canada Today?"...

The phone call that does it all. (voice processing technology in bank-operated discount brokerage operations)
July 1, 1993... How do you improve customer service and enhance your profit margin? New voice processing technology has paid off handsomely for two bank-operated discount brokerages. WHAT LETS YOU ACCESS INformation stored on a mainframe, has a keyboard, can...

Tough guy, tough job. (Canada Deposit Insurance Chmn. Grant Reuber) (Cover Story)
July 1, 1993... Nobody could ever accuse Grant Reuber of being a pushover. The question is can he wrestle the deposit insurance system back into shape? THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW Grant Reuber well describe him as gruff and prickly. He's stubborn, says one close...

Kind hearts and generous people. (bank employees help co-worker Germaine McNeil through personal crisis)
July 1, 1993... When Germaine MacNeil's only child was badly hurt in a senseless shooting, fellow bank employees shared her pain. And to help in the healing, a small Cape Breton community is shouldering a big burden. IT WAS JUST BEFORE 8 a.m. on May 7, 1992....

Accidental banker. (National Bank of Canada, Treasury and Financial Markets senior VP Real Raymond)
July 1, 1993... As a student, Real Raymond thought banking was a great way to pay for his schooling. But as a banker, he proved to be such a quick study that the promotions just never stopped coming. IT WAS SUMMERTIME IN THE tiny Laurentian community of St....

Billion-dollar baubles. (recycling old Canadian bank notes)
July 1, 1993... Mark Noakes and Rob Short don't come from old money, but they sure know what to do with it. Using shredded bills from the Bank of Canada, they've turned a lot of cash into a small business. EVER wonder where old money goes? The Bank of...

Have know-how, need money. (financing knowledge-based industries)
July 1, 1993... Lending to knowledge-based industries is one of the biggest challenges facing bankers. Get it right, and you're on the leading edge. Guess wrong, and you're out on a limb. TIMES ARE TOUGH, THE papers keep telling us, and it may never get any...

Should we take this guy seriously? (humor lecturer Andre Descheneaux)
July 1, 1993... Andre Descheneaux has made a career out of funny business. And after one of his lighten-up lectures, you may find yourself laughing all the way to the bank. ANDRE DESCHENEAUX'S grey hair may suggest sober maturity, but he doesn't take himself...

The hum of all its parts. (merging vintage and up-to-date software systems)
July 1, 1993... It's old, it's patched and in stretches, it's just plain redundant. But thanks to incessant upgrading, system software installed in the early Sixties is still faithfully humming along for the banks. BACK IN THE FIFTIES, LONG before the advent...

20 years before the masthead. (Canadian Banker editors relive their personal expriences with the publication)
July 1, 1993... It wasn't always smooth sailing for the people at the helm of the flagship publication of the Canadian Bankers Association. But as three editors look back, it's mostly with pleasure. Great expectations in an age of expansion LOOKING BACK ON...

It's trilingual, it's terrific, it wins awards. (Institute of Canadian Bankers' Bankmod computer-based educational software)
July 1, 1993... INNOVATION AND INGEnuity do pay off. For the Institute of Canadian Bankers, the payoff is a gold award for its computer-based learning courseware. The institute's Bankmod computer simulation recently won a gold award from the International...

A first among equals. (Institute of Canadian Bankers' Equity at Work seminar)
July 1, 1993... "WHILE THE BANKS are doing their best to hire minorities and the handicapped, we still need more knowledge and we need to be more pro-active," says Scotiabank's Don Doherty. So, motivated by comments from other bankers and his own observations,...

Chrysanthemums and Thorns: The Untold Story of Modern Japan.
July 1, 1993... This is a light-weight book by a former Tokyo bureau chief of Time magazine. Almost every subject it covers has been written about in more depth in other people's books, and one wonders why this one was published at all. I suppose the market...

"How Petro-Canada Pumped Canadians Dry."
July 1, 1993... Considering how frequently we pull up to our neighbourhood pumps, filling our tanks to the tune of $1,000 or more yearly (and that doesn't include bus, plane or train travel and the cost of heating homes), the oil products we take for granted are...

A spirit of dedication. (The July 14, 1893 maiden issue of the Journal of the Canadian Bankers Association, now known as the Canadian Banker magazine)
July 1, 1993... Copy for the first issue of The Journal of the Canadian Bankers Association, now Canadian Banker magazine, was being set in lead when the Manitoba Free Press was published on July 14, 1893. The news on that front page came from Berlin, London,...

The amazing momentum of money machines. (Canada's automated banking machines)
July 1, 1993... WHEN, IN 1983, CANADIAN BANKER first began counting Automated Banking Machines (ABMs) for our readers, there were 965 throughout Canada. Today, long established as vital to the financial services industry, their numbers are climbing rapidly...