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Credit unions beat Big Five in service: study

branch access and convenience; information handling and communications; financial products, interest rates and service charges; automated banking machines; and online banking. Filed by Mark Noble, Advisor.ca, mark.noble@advisor.rogers.com (08/29/07) valuing [the customer’s] business; staff service at the branch; branch access and convenience; information handling and communications; financial products, interest rates and service charges; automated banking machines; […]

By Mark Noble |August 29, 2007

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M&A activity breaks records, future uncertain

While the market has been in turmoil for weeks now, the long-term effects of falling stock prices and vanishing liquidity has yet to be felt. So although Crosbie & Company’s quarterly report on Canadian mergers and acquisitions says M&A activity had its best quarter ever, it’s important to remember that the outlook for the rest […]

By Bryan Borzykowski |August 29, 2007

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(August 28, 2007) The Canadian Home Income Plan (CHIP) faces new competition in the reverse mortgage market that it has long dominated. Seniors Money International has announced it will enter the Canadian market with the stated goal of becoming “the preferred provider in conservative and flexible retirement funding.” “The entry of Seniors Money into Canada […]

By Staff |August 28, 2007

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(August 27, 2007) The Charter Life Underwriters Institute has announced that Cynthia Bowden will serve a second term as chair of the board of trustees, following the group’s annual general meeting in Banff, Alberta, last week. “It’s a real honour to serve another term as chair of the CLU Institute Board,” Bowden said in a […]

By Staff |August 27, 2007

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