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Strength & Stability

As a bank-owned prime broker, our Global Prime Finance team combines our market insight and depth of resources with our strong and stable global presence. Our successes throughout Scotiabank position us as a strong global leader for our clients.

Recent successes include:

  • Scotiabank has a strong balance sheet with a global footprint.
  • Scotiabank has a strong credit rating: AA-Stable (S&P) / Aa1 Stable (Moodys).1
  • Canada was ranked #1 for the third consecutive year (2010) as the soundest banking sector, World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report 2010/2011.

Corporate Recognitions:
  • Best Investment Bank in Canada for a third year in a row (2011), Global Finance.
  • Scotia Capital awarded Three Global TopGun Banker Recognitions, 2009.

Global Prime Finance:
  • Scotia Capital was awarded for Excellence and commended (in less than $100M) for single strategy, multi-strategy and single Prime Broker, in the Prime Brokerage Survey, Global Custodian (2009).

Risk Solutions:
Ranked #1 for the ninth year in a row, in a 2011 Market Survey of Derivatives Users in Canada, by an independent third party survey provider:
  • #1 on the Quality Index
  • #1 in Overall Market Penetration
  • #1 for Sales Quality
  • #1 in Co-Ordination of Coverage Across Product Areas
  • #1 in Intensity of Sales Coverage
  • #1 in Understanding and Acting on Derivative Needs
  • #1 in Market Knowledge and Flow Information
  • #1 in After Sales Service

Foreign Exchange:
  • Best Foreign Exchange Bank in Canada for the seventh consecutive year (2011), Global Finance.
  • Scotia Capital named Best Canadian Forecaster, one of the Top 2 Global Leaders, and ranked #1 globally by currency pairs for Euro/Swiss and Dollar/Swiss, Bloomberg Markets (November 2009).
  • Scotia Capital ranked #1 on the Quality Index, #1 in overall Market Penetration, and #1 in Sales Quality and Research, for a second year in a row, by an independent third party market survey of Foreign Exchange Services in Canada (2009).

ScotiaMocatta:
  • Honored for the 4th time by the Gem and Jewelry Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) for outstanding performance and contribution to the gold export trade.
  • ScotiaMocatta named Best Bullion Bank for 3rd Year in a Row, 2011.
 
1 As at October 31, 2011



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