Canadian Banker articles from September 2000

Canadian Banker archives from September 2000

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Above and Beyond - "I had to give something back".(Heather Wielgoz active in Crohn's and Colitis Foundation)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... When Heather Wielgoz was first diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 1987, she'd never heard of the disease, a chronic and severely debilitating ailment that affects the lower gastrointestinal region. "I went looking for information," says...

Observer - Looking south.(impact of Gramm-Leach-Billey Act)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... The passage by Congress of the Gramm-Leach-Billey Act in December 1999 signalled a fundamental change in U.S. banking legislation. Now, for the first time since the 1930s, U.S. banks can own securities firms and insurance companies and, unlike...

Unplugged - Wireless technology enables customers to do their banking from, well, just about anywhere.
September 22, 2000... The last few years have brought us ABMs, telephone banking, PC banking and Internet banking. Now there's wireless banking. Liberated from the constraints of fixed wire connections, wireless banking offers the ultimate in customer mobility....

At last! A computer you can really talk to.(e-Scotia.com develops voice recognition banking)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Driving to the cottage, you remember to check if that important deposit was made to your account today. You need the money. Without stopping, you call your bank on your cell phone and ask the computer - yes, ask it - if the transfer has come...

WAP world: Europeans take to mobile banking.(Wireless Activated Protocol)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Although wireless banking is in its infancy in Canada, it has already gained consumer acceptance in Europe and is growing fast, according to a new study. This is due in part to the fact that the European mobile- phone system, unlike North...

Interpreting Bill C-38.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The federal government's new financial-services package is intimidatingly large and complicated. In an exclusive interview, CBA President and CEO Ray Protti discusses its key elements and what they will mean for Canadians and their banks ...

CRM: The upgrade - Move over, Customer Relationship Management, and make way for Customer Relationship Marketing, which is driven not by what the bank has to sell but by what the individual customer actually needs to buy.(customer satisfaction)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
September 22, 2000... Another credit-card offering in the mail, another telemarketing call during dinner... Customer Relationship Management strikes again! CRM has helped banks move to more of a sales culture - away from product and closer to the customer. The...

Data Banks - Whatever happened to EBPP?(Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment services)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
September 22, 2000... So I logged onto my bank's Web site the other day, shifted some money around, checked a balance or two and paid the phone bill. Which, of course, struck a chord: what has been happening to the much-ballyhooed Electronic Bill Presentment and...

Web Watch - 'Tis the season of e-politics.(web sites evaluated; government programs and services go online)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... A political season is looming. South of the border, www.whitehouse.gov and such are up for grabs in the November elections - and from all accounts, the Government of Canada portal, http://canada.gc.ca, will be as well, before very long. In...

Perspective - The growth of disabilities.(aging and disability statistics)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... The proportion of people with disabilities will rise in the coming years as baby boomers age. It's a fact of life: disabilities increase with age. For example, 36% of people aged 55 to 64 have some form of disability, compared to 24% for...

Go Figure - Read all about I.T.(information technology statistics)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... 38: Number of years from its inception that it took the radio to reach 50 million users, generally regarded as the threshold of widespread acceptance. 16: Number of years from its inception that it took the personal computer to reach 50 million...