Canadian Banker articles from September 1997

Canadian Banker archives from September 1997

Man of the world. (director of international human resources for the Bank of Nova Scotia George Simon)
September 1, 1997... Finding the right people to fill bank jobs in foreign countries is no easy task in itself. George Simson says one of the most challenging aspects of his job as director of international human resources for The Bank of Nova Scotia is keeping up...

Knowledge to go. (Institute of Canadian Bankers)(includes related article on ICB)
September 1, 1997... With no campus but a revamped curriculum, the Institute of Canadian Bankers is helping its students prepare for future success - and securing its own future as a top player in financial-services education. The city is Montreal. The downtown...

In search of simpler regulations. (Canadian financial-services regulations)
September 1, 1997... Duplication of financial-services regulations in Canada is expensive and, in many cases, unnecessary. Progress towards reform is being made - slowly. Regulatory duplication is a bete noire of Canada's financial-services industry. Having to...

Fighting the facts about SME financing. (Canadian small and medium sized enterprises)(includes related article on SME statistics)
September 1, 1997... Advocates of U.S.-style legislation to increase the flow of bank credit to small business are missing the point. There's plenty of credit available now and American law doesn't fit the Canadian market. Is Canada's banking industry meeting the...

Bankers learn to love technology.
September 1, 1997... As they're trained to use increasingly sophisticated information technology, many bankers find they like the power it gives them to do their jobs better. While banks are using more technology in transactions to improve the delivery of products...

The Internet has landed. (Internet banking)
September 1, 1997... An introduction to the fundamentals of Web banking in Canada A few months back, I took myself off to an isolated beach near the University of British Columbia. As a UBC student in the late '70s, I'd hung out on the beach and this was my first...

Working for themselves. (self-employed Canadians)
September 1, 1997... Canada has paid a price for low inflation and government deficit reduction. The high interest rates required to wring inflationary pressure out of the system sent the economy into recession in the early 1990s and then, combined with government...