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The chief executive of one of Canada’s biggest pension funds is sounding a note of caution about the risk of policymakers removing economic stimulus too soon, noting that the growth needed to justify the withdrawal...

Mark Machin faced a virtual grilling last June, when the then-chief executive officer of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board logged on for a meeting of the House of Commons finance committee. For about two...

The abrupt resignation of the head of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board after it was revealed the 54-year-old was vaccinated against COVID-19 in Dubai has sparked a new round of debate over vaccine queue...

Canadian regulators are warning companies to be sure they disclose to investors — in detail — government financial support related to the pandemic. “(M)eaningful disclosures about the business impacts and...

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Toronto-Dominion Bank capped off another round of results from the country’s Big Six lenders on Thursday by topping first-quarter earnings expectations, with the beats driven...

Lower credit costs aided by an improving economic outlook helped both Bank of Montreal and Bank of Nova Scotia on Tuesday to deliver better-than-expected first-quarter earnings. BMO said net income for the...

When Jennifer Jackson talks about Black economic empowerment, the three Ws quickly come up: work, wages and wealth. They are only part of the equation, but an important one, with the first two feeding into the...

Toronto-based gaming technology provider Bragg Gaming Group has made the third addition to its board of directors in a little under six months, announcing the appointment of gaming industry veteran Lara Falzon last...

CALGARY – Brookfield Infrastructure has spent billions of dollars buying up hydrocarbons infrastructure in Western Canada, primarily in the natural gas business, but its proposed acquisition of Inter Pipeline Ltd....

Canada’s national investment industry regulator says it has seen a 270 per cent spike in complaints and other calls about do-it-yourself investing services, a surge that comes as retail investors have flocked to the...

Officials at the British Columbia Securities Commission hope to unveil new rules this summer to beef up the regulator’s power to pursue those who use social media channels to manipulate stock prices and markets....

As Black Lives Matter protests flared around the world in the wake of the killing of George Floyd last spring, Bay Street veteran Wes Hall asked himself a question: What would happen if a Black businessman in Canada...

Regulators around the world have been scrutinizing the recent social-media-driven surges in the stock prices of companies such as GameStop and AMC, but some securities industry veterans say there may be little they...

A major tax battle between the Canada Revenue Agency and the country’s six biggest banks has more than doubled in size over the past few years, with the lenders saying they are being reassessed for in excess of $6...

Fanny Doucet, Director of Capital Markets at Scotiabank, talks with the Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about ESG bond issuances for 2021. Rough patch: Debt-ridden oilpatch eyes M&As to get out of...

Resiliency was the name of the game as opportunism overcame fear in Canada’s corporate debt capital markets in 2020. Even as COVID-19 ravaged the globe, many companies, motivated no doubt by the uncertain...

While most of the economy was shutting down in the first quarter of 2020, Bay Street found itself getting busier. There was, after all, a fair bit of firefighting to be done during the first wave of the pandemic,...