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What is Laurentian Bank?

The Laurentian Bank of Canada is situated in the province of Quebec. It has only one branch presently in Ottawa, Ontario. It is a very old bank which was started back in 1846. The Montreal city and district savings bank was started by a group of 15 people from Montreal itself. The bank had 60 honorary members back then. The main idea was to provide a savings account for the working class people. It was an ideal method to store your money. It accepted deposits from a meager amount of one shilling to 500 pounds sterling. At the end of one year they managed to have total deposits worth 29,350 pounds. This was back in 1846. Later in the year 1972, it became the first Canadian bank which linked all the branches to one single computer. It was the first Canadian bank to upgrade its software and make it more user friendly. By connecting all the branches to one single computer all the accounts can be monitored more closely. The customers can access their accounts from any of the branches. The bank can make transactions from one branch to another. This way the customers can transfer their money from one branch to another using this computer. This holds all the personal loan files and deposit accounts of all the customers. Thus the system is made more advanced which quickens the whole process.

In 1980, The Montreal and Savings Bank received the right to expand. It opened branches all over Canada. Once it expanded, it listed its stock on the share market and finally the bank was renamed to Laurentian Bank of Canada three years later that is in the year 1987. This was all started by the legislative revisions held prior to the expansion. Later in the 90’s it sold most of its branches outside Canada to Canadian Western Bank. It held all the assets owned by the LBC. It got its big break in 2009. It got the contract to install bank machines in the subway system of Montreal. It is supposed to install 44 machines. They have already installed them. 26 currently operate under their name and the rest operate under other banners. They have installed 70 new bank machines in 63 different subway stations. They monitor the transactions which take place in these bank machines. They check the cash flow. They check for any fraud or any case of illegal transactions. They exercise their control over these machines.

The bank merged in 1988 with a company called Eaton Trust Company. They have also has their own share of purchasing assets and merging with companies. Merging helps in expanding the financial assets and the products. It widens the sources and broadens the perspective of the company. In the year 1995 the bank acquired 30 branches of another Trust company. This helps the bank to expand in size and finance. Now they have a larger area to cover, larger variety of customers to satisfy.



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