June 24, 2025

Canada

Banking

Scotiabank taps Finning executive as chief operating officer for Canadian banking unit

Open this photo in gallery: Scotiabank is planning to deploy 90 per cent of its capital – up from 70 per cent in 2023 – to its key businesses in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico over the next few years.Fred Lum/the Globe and Mail Bank of Nova Scotia BNS-T has tapped a senior executive at

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Banking

Ottawa plans to introduce bill for open banking, department says – National

The federal government says it will introduce legislation to implement open banking at its “earliest opportunity” as some advocates warn the project’s momentum may have stalled. Open banking — or consumer-driven banking, as Ottawa calls it — is about allowing Canadians and businesses to securely share their financial data with third parties other than their

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Crypto

Russia recruited a teenage spy. His arrest led to a crypto money trail

Mari Saito, Anna Koper, Anton Zverev, Filipp Lebedev, Polina Nikolskaya  |  Reuters A Canadian teenager was recruited to be a Russian spy Laken Pavan, a Canadian teenager, was recruited by Russia’s FSB in Donetsk in May 2024 and sent to Europe to collect military intelligence. unbranded – Newsworthy WARSAW, June 12 – The Canadian teenager was getting

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Loans

How the ‘big, beautiful’ bill would hit college student loans

Republicans, however, challenged Biden’s assertion of executive authority over the loan program and won a 2023 Supreme Court ruling that vastly scaled back debt forgiveness. Now, under the Trump-backed budget bill pending before the Senate, the loan program would be simplified and its terms made less generous to borrowers. (The House already passed the bill

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Finance

G7 finance leaders seek unity on non-tariff issues in Canada, face US resistance on trade policy

G7 finance officials meeting in Banff amid US tariff pressure US won’t sign G7 statement unless it aligns with Trump priorities G7 seen uniting around Ukraine, IMF and World Bank, money laundering Climate change issues seen as source of discord Meeting will set stage for G7 leaders’ summit in June BANFF (Canada), May 20 —

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Banking

Santander Wins Canadian Banking License Amid Push Into Americas

BNN Bloomberg is Canada’s definitive source for business news dedicated exclusively to helping Canadians invest and build their businesses. Banco Santander SA has won a Canadian banking license as it continues its expansion across the Americas. Canada’s banking regulator, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, issued an order for Santander Consumer Bank to

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Banking

Questrade inches closer to winning Canadian banking licence

Questrade Financial Group Inc. moved a step closer to obtaining a banking licence in Canada, entering the final phase of a rigorous process to earn approval from the federal banking regulator. The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, or OSFI, published a notice on Friday that said the government had issued letters patent –

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Finance

How Mark Carney’s choice of finance minister shows he wants to shake things up

Open this photo in gallery: Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada’s prime minister on March 14, taking charge of a country rattled by a breakdown in U.S. relations since President Donald Trump’s return to power.DAVE CHAN/AFP/Getty Images Mark Carney wants to move fast and build things. There was nothing subtle about the new Prime

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Investors

Avolta Makes Gains But The Americas Suffer, And Investors Are Unmoved

Avolta’s revamped retail and F&B offer at Barcelona Airport in Spain. Avolta Latin America was the standout region for Avolta for all the wrong reasons, following the travel retailer’s reveal of its 2024 annual results on Wednesday. Like-for-like* sales in Latin America (including the Caribbean) were down by 4.7% in sharp contrast to its three

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Finance

African soccer leader Patrice Motsepe re-elected pledging to seek private finance for new stadiums

CAIRO (AP) — African soccer leader Patrice Motsepe was re-elected Wednesday and urged working with private financiers to help federations build national stadiums in countries where government budgets are tight. The 54 member federations of the Confederation of African Football — 12 of whom currently cannot host national-team games in international competitions — elected Motsepe

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