# Canadian Bankers Association

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The Canadian Bankers Association (CBA; French: Association des banquiers canadiens) is a trade association and lobby group representing Canadian banks. Its over 60 members include Canada's Big Five banks, smaller domestic banks, and Canadian subsidiaries of foreign banks.

## Key facts

## Overview

The Canadian Bankers Association (CBA; French: Association des banquiers canadiens) is a trade association and lobby group representing Canadian banks. Its over 60 members include Canada's Big Five banks, smaller domestic banks, and Canadian subsidiaries of foreign banks. Founded in Montreal in 1891, the CBA is one of Canada's oldest interest groups. The CBA is headquartered at Commerce Court West in Toronto's Financial District and maintains additional offices in Ottawa and Montreal.

## Lobbying activities with the federal government (2012)

According to the Federal lobbyist registry, from January to September 2012, the Canadian Bankers Association had 131 contacts with federal officials to discuss issues such as mortgage insurance, identity theft laws, do-not-call list, corporate income tax, and accounting rules, making it the lobby group with the second most contacts that year.

## President (to 1980) and Chairman of the Executive Council (from 1980)

From its inception, the head of the CBA was a president chosen from the ranks of its member banks. The role was voluntary and unpaid, and typically an officeholder would serve two terms. In 1980, the bank hired a full-time, paid president, at which time the former president became Chairman of the Executive Council.

## President

The office of president, effectively the chief executive of the organisation, was created in June 1980. The first president of the CBA was Robert Mallory MacIntosh, who previously was vice-president of the Bank of Nova Scotia. Upon the creation of the office, the former office of the president became the Chairman of the Executive Council.

Robert Mallory MacIntosh, 1 June 1980 – 1 October 1989 Helen K. Sinclair, 1 October 1989 – 3 June 1996 Raymond Joseph Protti, 3 June 1996 – 28 May 2007 Nancy Hughes Anthony, 28 May 2007 – 1 March 2011 Terry Campbell, 1 March 2011 – 1 May 2017 Neil Parmenter, 1 May 2017 – 23 December 2021 Anthony George Ostler, 1 March 2022 – present

## See also

Banking in Canada

## External links

Official website

## Sources

- Canadian Bankers Association · Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=1262339

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