Budget 2025: Implications for financial institutions
Proposals impact banking fees, cheque deposits, open banking stablecoin regulation and credit union rules
- By: Jonathan Got
- November 4, 2025 November 4, 2025
- 16:16
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Navacord rebrands brokerage partners
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- By: IE Staff
- November 4, 2025 November 4, 2025
- 15:54
Liberal budget earmarks billions for ‘bold and swift action’ to meet U.S. disruption
The 406-page budget includes almost $90B in net new spending items over five years
- By: Craig Lord, The Canadian Press
- November 4, 2025 November 4, 2025
- 15:19
Manulife offers discounted early cancer detection
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- By: Jonathan Got
- November 4, 2025 November 4, 2025
- 12:50
Champagne’s biggest test yet — selling a ‘generational’ budget to anxious Canadians
The Canada-U.S. trade war forms the backdrop of the entire budgetary plan
- By: Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press
- November 4, 2025 November 4, 2025
- 09:18
Interest rates at low end of ideal balance between growth, inflation: Macklem
BoC's trying to "make sure that the tariff problem doesn't become an inflation problem"
- By: The Canadian Press
- November 3, 2025 November 3, 2025
- 15:52
FP Canada posts positive 2024–25 results as fee revenue grows
Education program fees increased by 38%
- By: Michelle Schriver
- November 3, 2025 November 3, 2025
- 14:26
Term life sales led in commissions in 2024: CCIR
Canadian insurers sold 481,000 life and health contracts last year
- By: Jonathan Got
- November 3, 2025 November 3, 2025
- 12:47
Questrade secures approval to launch Canada’s newest bank
Questbank will join other fintechs pushing into banking space
- By: Ian Bickis, The Canadian Press
- November 3, 2025 November 3, 2025
- 11:55
PWL Capital acquires N.S.-based independent advisory firm
It’s the firm’s second acquisition in a matter of months
- By: IE Staff
- November 3, 2025 November 3, 2025
- 10:50
CRA interest rate on overdue tax to hold steady in Q1 2026
Prescribed rate to remain at 3% for third consecutive quarter
- By: IE Staff
- October 31, 2025 October 31, 2025
- 16:16
CRA announces CPP maximum pensionable earnings for 2026
RRSP dollar limit also announced
- By: IE Staff
- October 31, 2025 October 31, 2025
- 15:41
Industry moves: Brian Belski leaves BMO to start new firm
Plus, CI Assante and Harbourfront score advisory teams
- By: Alisha Hiyate
- October 31, 2025 October 31, 2025
- 14:50
Top 1% of Canadians’ income fell slightly in 2023
Canadians' average inflation-adjusted income declined 0.3%
- By: Jonathan Got
- October 31, 2025 October 31, 2025
- 11:16
McGuinty has ‘every confidence’ fall budget will pass through minority Parliament
Carney's first federal budget is set to be unveiled on Nov. 4
- By: Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press
- October 30, 2025 November 3, 2025
- 17:10
ISS seeks comment on 2026 voting policies
Proxy advisory firms consults on planned changes to benchmark policies
- By: James Langton
- October 30, 2025 October 30, 2025
- 16:58
A small group of Canadians will pay more after Liberal tax cut: PBO
Middle-class tax cut will adversely affect fewer than 1% of single and couple tax filers
- By: Jonathan Got
- October 30, 2025 October 30, 2025
- 13:54
Pension plans show strong returns for Q3
Both equities and fixed-income assets drove the gains
- By: Jonathan Got
- October 30, 2025 October 30, 2025
- 12:09
FCA prosecutes boiler room data breach
Mobile company employee disclosed data to crypto scammers
- By: James Langton
- October 30, 2025 October 30, 2025
- 09:03
Concerns follow regulators’ survey of mutual fund reps
Findings put bank branches’ proprietary shelves back in the spotlight, highlight lack of MER knowledge
- By: Michelle Schriver
- October 29, 2025 October 29, 2025
- 15:35
Two-thirds of unemployed Canadians eligible for EI in 2024
Eligibility rates declined across the Prairie provinces
- By: Jonathan Got
- October 29, 2025 October 29, 2025
- 15:17
National Bank shuffles execs as personal banking head retires
IT and operations EVP Julie Lévesque to step into new role
- By: The Canadian Press
- October 29, 2025 October 29, 2025
- 12:42
IA Financial’s acquisition of RF Capital to close this week
$597-million transaction has been approved by regulators
- By: IE Staff
- October 28, 2025 October 28, 2025
- 12:23
Wealthsimple to raise up to $750M to accelerate growth
U.S. and Singapore-based investors will lead the financing
- By: The Canadian Press
- October 28, 2025 October 28, 2025
- 09:40
Exports and manufacturing output shrink as tariffs bite
Employment growth stalls as businesses react to uncertainty
- By: Jonathan Got
- October 27, 2025 October 27, 2025
- 12:40