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Toronto’s financial services sector emerged from the global crisis with its reputation unscathed — stodginess was, after all, a good thing. The next challenge will be to grow its role in the global debt markets. Philip Moore reports.
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With Mark Carney succumbing to the charms of UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, Canada needed a new central bank governor. Rather than picking the heavily fancied Tiff Macklem, Carney’s senior deputy, the Bank turned to Export Development Canada’s president and chief executive Stephen Poloz. In one of his first interviews since taking on the job in early June, Poloz explains how exports will play an increasingly important role in the post-crisis Canadian economy, why this is an era of creative destruction and renaissance for the Canadian economy, the thinking behind his spaghetti sauce model and just why he is so confident that Keynes’ animal spirits will return. He spoke to EuroWeek’s Ralph Sinclair in early September.
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The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions is Canada’s top banking regulator and is widely viewed as having created a banking system that is the envy of the Western world. At the top of OSFI is Julie Dickson. She joined the agency in 1999 and, after serving a member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision between 2002 and 2006, was appointed superintendent of OSFI in 2007 just as the first signs of the global financial crisis began to appear. Her seven year term is set to end next year but she has indicated that she will not extend it. She spoke to EuroWeek’s Philip Moore in early September about why Canada’s financial system has been so resilient throughout the crisis, whether the housing sector is overheating and just how regulators can keep on top of the new set of challenges that will surely emerge as global economic recovery gathers pace.
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Canada’s commitment to a strong banking sector is now world famous. But its banking industry appears to have achieved the best of both worlds, maintaining stability without suffocating innovation or stifling growth. Philip Moore finds out how it has achieved this impressive balance.
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Before the crisis, Canada’s banks were derided for being too cautious. Now look at them. Having been ranked the soundest on the planet for the sixth year running, Canada’s banking system is the envy of the financial world. Philip Moore reports.
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In January, 1995, The Wall Street Journal proclaimed Canada to be “an honorary member of the Third World” and called the Canadian dollar the “northern peso”.