National Bank of Canada (NBC) is an integrated banking group that provides a range of financial services to consumers, small and medium-sized enterprises and large corporations in Canada. The company primarily operates in Canada and the US. NBC is headquartered in Quebec, Canada and employs about 17,747 people. The company recorded revenues of C$4,131 million (approximately $3,853.4 million) in the financial year (FY) ended October 2009, an increase of 13.6% over FY2008. The operating profit of the company was C$1,164 million (approximately $1,085.8 million) in FY2009, an increase of 45.9% over FY2008. The net profit was C$795 million (approximately $741.6 million) in FY2009, an increase of 6.9% over FY2008.

Scope of the Report

- Provides all the crucial information on National Bank of Canada required for business and competitor intelligence needs
- Contains a study of the major internal and external factors affecting National Bank of Canada in the form of a SWOT analysis as well as a breakdown and examination of leading product revenue streams of National Bank of Canada
-Data is supplemented with details on National Bank of Canada history, key executives, business description, locations and subsidiaries as well as a list of products and services and the latest available statement from National Bank of Canada

Reasons to Purchase

- Support sales activities by understanding your customers’ businesses better
- Qualify prospective partners and suppliers
- Keep fully up to date on your competitors’ business structure, strategy and prospects
- Obtain the most up to date company information available

Table of Contents :
This product typically includes the following sections:

SWOT COMPANY PROFILE: National Bank of Canada
Key Facts: National Bank of Canada
Company Overview: National Bank of Canada
Business Description: National Bank of Canada
Company History: National Bank of Canada
Key Employees: National Bank of Canada
Key Employee Biographies: National Bank of Canada
Products & Services Listing: National Bank of Canada
Products & Services Analysis: National Bank of Canada
SWOT analysis: National Bank of Canada
*Strengths: National Bank of Canada
*Weaknesses: National Bank of Canada
*Opportunities: National Bank of Canada
*Threats: National Bank of Canada
Company View: National Bank of Canada
Top Competitors: National Bank of Canada
Location and Subsidiary: National Bank of Canada
*Head Office: National Bank of Canada
*Other Locations and Subsidiaries: National Bank of Canada

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There are certain criteria to avail these saving plans in case of long-term disability. Its major and basic provisions are- the applicants should be under age of 60; they should be a Canadian resident with a Social Insurance Number (SIN); eligible for the Disability Tax Credit and looking for a long-term saving plan.

The government deposits money into your RDSP by the Canada Disability Saving Grant. For this saving plan government provides grants of up to 300 per cent, depending on the amount contributed. The maximum amount is $3,500 each year, though there is upper limit of $70,000 over the lifetime of disabled persons. Another plan is Canada Disability Saving Bond, under which government deposits money into the RDSPs of low-income and modest-income citizens. The eligible people could receive up to $1,000 a year from the Government, with a limit of $20,000 over their lifetime.

The RDSP is a long-term saving plan that especially provides benefits to the disabled persons. It encourage savings, grants and bonds for at least 10 years and there is no impact on federal benefits, such as the Goods and Services Tax Credit, the Canada Tax Benefit, Old Age Security, and Employment Insurance. There are no restrictions how and for what purpose the fund is being used.

Unfortunately, not all “professionals” in the industry follow a strict code of ethics or have the highest professional integrity, as they are supposed to.  This article will examine some of the more common things to consider and look out for when working with a business brokerage firm or professional.

What is their reputation like in the industry?
Does the firm you are considering working with have a good reputation in the industry?  Are they considered honest and ethical by their peers?  Be wary of dealing with firms that espouse themselves to be ethical professionals in the business brokerage industry when, in fact, a quick survey of industry peers would suggest otherwise.

As with most things, it is quite easy to present oneself as being a leading, ethical organization.  As a potential client, please ensure that this is in fact true and if it is also recognized by the broader profession.

Have they crossed any ethical boundaries?
Before you commit to dealing with a firm, ask around.  Have they crossed any ethical lines that they should not have?  Have they truly put their clients first?  Do they strictly adhere to the Real Estate & Business Brokers Act Code of Ethics?

Before you sign on the dotted line to work with a business brokerage firm or professional, please ensure that they put business ethics first & foremost.

A growing industry may attract unsavory “professionals”
The industry is growing in Canada and this can attract unsavory business brokerage “professionals” to the industry.  The field of business brokerage is considered a “growth” field.  The number of ‘baby boomers’ retiring over the next 10 years will cause a spike in demand for business brokerage services.  Boomers who own businesses in southern Ontario may want to retire and sell a business and boomers who are in the corporate world may decide it’s time for a new challenge and want to buy a small business.  The point is that there may be players attracted to this industry who only see the dollar signs associated with such growth and are willing to set ethical behavior towards their clients and industry colleagues aside as a result.

As a consumer, please be vigilant about protecting your interests and please, only work with a business brokerage professional who has a good reputation and if it “feels right.”  Usually, if a business relationship doesn’t feel right or if something about the “professional” or firm seems amiss, your hunch is probably correct so find yourself another business broker to work with.

Buying or selling a business can be a convoluted process.  The decision to work with a business brokerage professional is a wise one.  The vast, vast majority of professionals in this field are ethical and do not cross moral boundaries.  The main point to keep in mind is to be careful because, like in all industries, there can be a few ‘bad apples’ that spoil it for everyone.

No one thinks they’re doomed.

I’m talking about the Canadians, of course.

See, lately, I’ve read a lot about the superiority of the Canadian banking system. And naturally, my contrarian instincts prompted a search for a way for you to make money as the Canadian banks go down.

In the last 18 months, my readers had the chance to make 432% when Lehman failed, 162% when Allied Capital came clean, and 220% on PNC Financial… This month they’re poised to make money on the next bank drop.

And I’m going to give you a chance to join them.

If you think Canada escaped the downward trend in U.S. banking, think again. While the country may not have plunged headfirst into subprime mortgages, it did dip heavily into risky derivatives. The leverage it took on generated impressive returns on equity in good times, but that same leverage is set to wipe out equity today.

Shareholders in one “safe” Canadian bank will have to rethink their loyalty. Its looming solvency crisis practically guarantees a dividend cut. And that’s our catalyst for this month’s short play action – offering us a chance for 200% profit potential.

Accounting secrets have not yet obliterated Canadian bank earnings – like those of U.S. banks – because the Canadians have not yet accounted for the coming tsunami of mortgage, consumer loan, and corporate loan losses.

Here’s how they loaded those loan books with hidden risk.

The Basics of Bank Accounting

Bank shareholders leverage their capital by borrowing short-term money, primarily from depositors. Your bank account is an asset for you, but it’s a liability for your bank. For every dollar of capital, bank shareholders borrow 15, 20, or even 30 dollars from senior creditors – otherwise, they could not afford to own their huge portfolios of loans and securities. Here’s the core problem: Bank shareholders and their agents (bank executives) are lending other people’s money. So bankers are looser with lending than if they were lending their own savings.

The accounting process to determine commercial bank profits is inherently speculative, as well. Banks book an upfront profit on every new loan they make, minus a small “provision” for loan losses – just in case some loans wind up going bad. These upfront profits have the habit of disappearing when loans “season,” and banks discover how many deadbeats owe them money. In case you’ve been wondering what has wiped out the majority of the S&P 500’s trailing earnings, here’s your answer: Banks and brokerages reversing most of the profits they booked on loans made and securities bought at the peak of the bubble.

Banks claimed to make good money loans to every borrower. But somebody sure was lying, since they’re taking charges against these older vintage loans and securities left and right. And the industrywide provision for loan losses, which is the single most important – and unpredictable – cost in a bank’s income statement, has been soaring. Once these provision expenses soared on the backs of delinquent loans, the banking sector’s earnings plunged deep into negative territory.

Throw in a few more explosive ingredients like deposit insurance, central bank lending facilities, loan syndication, and securitization and we’re left with a system for which sales volume – not risk management – is priority No. 1.

Those who claim the banking system is well capitalized – including those who designed the unstressful “stress test” – hold rosy assumptions about how many loans will go bad and how much banks will earn from existing loans to have a shot at outrunning their credit losses.

Lots of bank stocks remain in a fragile state. This month, we’re going to buy puts on the Canadian bank most ready to fall.

A Primer on Put Options

As you may know, an easy way to play the downside of stocks is through put options. Here’s a quick primer on how they work…

Put options are a limited risk, leveraged way for you to make money when stocks drop.

For example — when a stock falls 5% in a day, put options may go up 50%. When big drops happen, puts can go up hundreds of percent in hours.

And since they’re limited risk, if you’re wrong, you’ll never lose more than you put up.

My point is — there’s no easier, safer, and faster way to grab huge gains from downward stocks than through put options.

Having said that, let’s take a look in on how you can use them to make money on the Canadian banks. First, the “macro view…”

The Canadian banking system has won accolades for avoiding direct exposure to the most tempting forbidden fruit: products like subprime mortgages, credit cards, leveraged buyout loans, and loans to finance insane commercial real estate purchases.

The financial press loves Canadian banks. On May 19, The Wall Street Journal ran a piece suggesting that these banks are a model of sustainability, and now have the opportunity to acquire U.S. banks on the cheap:

“Not long ago, Canadian banks were considered slow footed, provincial, and too conservative to flourish in the global boom for financial institutions. Now that banks in the U.S. and Europe are reeling from loan losses and face growing government scrutiny and ownership, Canada’s six major banks are seen as a potential model for battered financial institutions. TD Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and National Bank of Canada posted more than C$3 billion (US$2.5 billion) in combined profit in the latest quarter.” [Ed. note: quarter ending April 30, 2009.]

Canada’s biggest six banks account for more than 85% of the assets in the country’s banking system. By and large, these banks made a smart decision to avoid securitization. Securitization refers to loans that banks originate, bundle together, and sell off to pension funds, money market funds, insurance companies, and other institutions.

But this doesn’t mean that Canadian banks have no credit risk. On the contrary, they have plenty. Mark to market accounting has not yet cut down Canadian bank earnings, because the Canadians have not yet accounted for the impending wave of mortgage, consumer loan, and corporate loan losses.

They will by the end of 2009. It’s impossible to avoid. And just to give a perspective on how quickly lending grew at the Canadian banks, the chart below shows that assets at the top six Canadian banks grew from C$1.3 trillion in October 1999 to C$2.7 trillion in October 2008. Equity at these top six banks grew in line with assets; all six kept their ratios of assets to common equity fairly constant since 1999.

Growth in assets, even if accompanied by growth in equity, is always a risky proposition for banks. At the time the loans are made, everything seems fine. Then, when a serious recession arrives, and a dramatic credit loss cycle begins, the market value of loan portfolios can rapidly decline by 5% or 10%, pushing the banking system to the edge of insolvency. Insolvency is when the value of assets is less than the value of liabilities. Bank regulators don’t like this scenario and pressure weaker banks to raise very expensive, dilutive equity capital in order to protect more senior lenders, including depositors, from suffering losses.

Canada has just entered what will ultimately be an enormous credit loss cycle, and by the time it’s over, the Canadian banks could easily lose their pristine reputations. Until the middle of 2008, Canada’s economy was booming. Its mining, energy, and manufacturing sectors are world-class, and every other sector was pulled along for the ride.

But the wheels fell off last fall. According to Statistics Canada, the unemployment rate rose to 8.4% in May — the highest in 11 years. Ontario, with its heavy manufacturing base and ties to the “Detroit Three” auto companies, is especially hard hit; Ontario lost 234,000 jobs, or 14% of its entire manufacturing work force, since last October. Ontario will lose even more jobs this summer as GM and Chrysler dramatically cut auto production. Alberta has slowed dramatically too. Just a year ago in Alberta, every skilled construction worker was working overtime on oil sands projects. Now many projects are postponed and workers are getting laid off. The unemployment rate in Alberta nearly doubled from May 2008 to May 2009, to 6.6%, and is heading higher.

For Canada, this credit cycle will probably be worse than the one in the late 1980s. According to RBC Capital Markets, annualized loan loss provisions for the entire Canadian banking system peaked at 2.88% of all loans in 1988. As of April 2009, this figure was just 0.77%. Over the next year or two, loan loss provisions should easily triple or quadruple, which would cut deeply into profits and capital… sending the worst of the Canadian bank stocks down.

So how do you play it?

First, I recommend you dig in to the major banks to figure out the one with the most exposure to unemployment rates. Then, simply visit Yahoo! Finance, enter in their symbol and click on “options” on the top left hand side underneath “Quotes.”

You’ll see all of the put options available on that stock. Pick a good one and you’ll be able to double your money as these stocks go down.

Regards,

Dan Amoss

Datamonitors Retail Banking Competitor Tracker is a monthly product providing updates on key events relating to major players in retail banking across the globe. Covering major developments such as M&A activity, market entries and withdrawals, partnerships, product innovation, and customer targeting, the Retail Banking Competitor Tracker provides succinct summaries of key stories.

Scope

*Information on new product developments, mergers and acquisitions, distribution and partnerships

*Insight on how the major retail banks are adapting to the ever changing economic climate

Highlights

Several banks announce launch of mobile phone banking platforms.

RBS sells Indian retail arm to HSBC.

Bank of China continues to develop partnerships with Western banks.

Reasons to Purchase

*Provides a definitive source of information on all your competitors key strategies

*Offers insight into how the competitive landscape is evolving through M&A activities, partnerships and organic growth

*Detailed insight into new product developments within retail banking

Table of Contents :

Overview 1
Catalyst 1
Summary 1
Methodology 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS 2
Introduction 3
This tracker provides both one-month and 12-month views of developments 3
Each month Datamonitor tracks the most relevant announcements from 100 competitors 3
Datamonitors Retail Banking Team provides analysis of the key developments at both the one-month and 12-month level 4
A fully searchable database of the past two years of developments is also delivered alongside the report 4
Products, Services and Innovation 5
Barclays 5
UK: Barclays provides students with overdraft facility 5
BBVA 5
Spain: BBVA offers smart phone application to Xacobeo 2010 pilgrims 5
Citibank 5
Mexico: Banamex opens online shopping center 5
Malaysia: Citibank launches mobile banking platform in Malaysia 6
Taiwan: Citibank Taiwan launches mobile banking platform 6
The Cooperative Financial Services 7
UK: Cooperative Bank halves mortgage fees 7
First Direct 7
UK: First Direct introduces one fee for all of its products 7
First National Bank 7
South Africa: FNB introduces Pay Wallet 7
South Africa: FNB provides its customers with free online security 8
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation 8
Singapore: OCBC to offer banking services on iPad 8
State Bank of India 9
India: SBI prepares for paperless banking 9
India: SBI to continue with home and car loan scheme 9
Yorkshire Building Society 9
UK: Yorkshire provides mortgages of up to 90% LTV 9
M&A, Partnerships and Organic Growth 10
ABN Amro 10
The Netherlands: ABN Amro restructures business after merger 10
Bank of China 10
China: Bank of China enters into strategic alliance with Asian Development Bank 10
Bank of Ireland 10
Ireland: Bank of Ireland receives restructuring approval from the European Commission 10
BNP Paribas 10
France: BNP Paribas enters into alliance with BPCE Group 10
Commerzbank 11
Germany: Commerzbank finalizes the sale of Dresdner Bauspar and Kleinwort Benson 11
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China 11
Canada: Bank of East Asia changes its name to ICBC 11
Piraeus Bank 11
Greece: Piraeus plans to acquire stake in Agricultural Bank of Greece 11
Royal Bank of Scotland 12
India: RBS to sell its Indian retail arm to HSBC 12
State Bank of India 12
India: SBI and State Bank of Indore merger approved by cabinet 12
Appendix 13
Methodology 13
Further reading 13
Ask the analyst 13
Datamonitor consulting 13
Disclaimer 13

List of Tables
Table 1: The 100 companies and subsidiaries covered by Datamonitors Retail Banking Competitor Tracker 3

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So many people have held onto hopes of buying RRSP’s but year-after-year, maxed credit cards and a bad credit rating has stood in the way of getting a loan from the bank to make an investment. This need not be the case any longer.

It’s never too late to start making a contribution and the best time starts now. Even if you have never made any RRSP contribution in previous years, there’s no time like the present to get started. Don’t let the lack of cash stop you from taking advantage of purchasing an investment in your future.

An RRSP loan can help you realize tax savings, increase the eventual size of your investment and can help you stick with a savings plan. As an added bonus, the tax refund that you may get as a result of your contribution could help to pay down your loan.

There is a limit on how much you can contribute every year. The maximum contribution is generally 18% of the amount that you earned from employment during the previous year. This amount is set by the Canadian government. After your first year of filing your tax return, the Notice of Assessment you receive from Revenue Canada will let you know your maximum allowable RRSP contribution.

The main purpose of an RRSP is to help you save for your retirement. However, the government does permit a person to use those investments for other important life goals, and there are no limitations on when you can and can’t use your money.

Don’t let the fear of having a bad credit rating stop you from taking control of your future. Everyone falls onto bad times at some point in their life and there’s reason why bad times should prevent you from investing in your future. While a standard financial institution may not be willing to lend to those with less than stellar credit, there are lenders out there that will approve even those with bad credt.

There are loan options available for everyone. With a little research, you can find a reputable company who is willing to work with you in order to help you start contributing to your future.

Online trading Canada has some checks and balances in place. You usually can’t transfer the funds out of your account to a third party. The broker that you have set up your trading account with will typically issue and mail you a check or you can go to the broker’s office and pick up a check. Remember to never invest money that you can’t afford to lose. Regardless of which investment vehicle you chose there is always a risk that you can lose your entire investment.

Commonly online trading information is gathered by hackers from a software bug that is downloaded to your computer which records all your key strokes and the websites that you are visiting. Another popular method of obtaining personal information is called phishing. Phishing is when a phony email is sent to you from your brokerage firm or bank asking you to update your personal information because of a security threat. These emails look like they are from your brokerage firm or bank but they are not. Don’t click on the links included in these messages. If you have a question about the security of your account, log into your account directly, don’t log in through a link in an email.

Online trading Canada and United States investors should always deal with a broker that offers their own security systems. These brokers will normally guarantee their accounts against fraud. You need to be aware though that some online brokers do not guarantee their accounts against fraud. If you are investing online, check your online trading contract to see if you will be protected against fraud.

There are a number of good stock brokers or Forex brokers available for online trading Canada and United States. Each broker will offer different features. Brokers will offer an assortment of trading options such as stocks, futures, Forex, bonds and other types of investments. Online brokers will also offer different interest rates earned and charge different commission fees for their services depending on the amount of technical support that is required. If you are a Canada citizen there are some brokers that will not allow you to trade with their brokerage firm. Online brokers will also offer different technical trading indicators. Not all technical indicators that are offered by online brokers are available to online trading Canada accounts or individuals. You will need to do some research and determine which broker will fit your individual investing needs when online trading Canada or United States.

If you are online trading Canada or in the United States there are certain ways that you can protect your personal information from being stolen. When you are developing a password use a combination of numbers and letter in upper and lower case. Change your passwords regularly. Install good virus software and a firewall on your computer. By taking a couple of easy steps to protect your personal investing information your online trading Canada or United States experience will be a positive one.