Chapter 14 Overview of Developments in Canadian Financial Services Law
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BRADLEY CRAWFORD
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Language:
English
Print Publication Date:
03 Aug 1995
Keywords:
BOOK; independence of central banks; chapter; bank; independence; country; credit policy; bank supervisor; EC treaty; bank regulator; banking regulator; Legal support in revenue administration; Foreign banks; Government securities; Securities markets; Commercial banks; Global; Central and Eastern Europe; Eastern Europe; Europe; Caribbean

Abstract

Domestic Canadian banking is based on the U.K. model: a small number of relatively large banks. The six big banks have combined assets of about $600 billion Canadian and over 7,500 branches and 10,000 automatic teller machines in about 1,700 communities throughout Canada. There are about 35 million personal savings accounts. Only one of the Canadian banks appears in the list of the world’s 50 biggest banks, but that makes it very big relative to most Canadian businesses. The banks are very influential in the Canadian economy.

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Cover Current Legal Issues Affecting Central Banks, Volume III.
Current Legal Issues Affecting Central Banks, Volume III.
Volume III.
ISBN:
9781557754981
Publication Date:
03 Aug 1995
Publisher:
International Monetary Fund
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557754981.071
Pages:
679
Front Matter
Chapter 1 Developments at the International Monetary Fund
Chapter 2 Developments at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development: Effectiveness of Legal Reform
Chapter 3 Developments at the International Finance Corporation
Chapter 4 Developments at the Inter-American Development Bank
Chapter 5 European Economic and Monetary Union
Chapter 6 EC Directives on Investment Services and the Capital Adequacy of Investment Firms and Credit Institutions
Chapter 7 Developments in Central and Eastern Europe and the Russian Federation
Chapter 8 The Debt Crisis and Its Resolution
Chapter 9 Legal Aspects of Economic Reform in Latin America: The Case of Chile
Chapter 10 Developments in the U.S. Banking Scene: The S&L Crisis and Bank Failures
Chapter 11 Prospects for Banking Reform in the United States
Chapter 12 The Decline of National Treatment in U.S. Financial Services Trade Policy
Chapter 13 Banking Law Developments in the United Kingdom
Chapter 15 Independence of Central Banks
Chapter 16 Government Securities Market Regulation: The Case of Salomon Brothers
Chapter 17 Anatomy of an International Banking Scandal
Chapter 18 Work of the Basle Committee
Chapter 19 Salient Features of the UNCITRAL Bills and Notes Convention
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