Canada’s bank deposit insurance limits being reviewed after SVB collapse, trade group says – National | 24CA News
Canada’s financial institution deposit insurer is reviewing deposit insurance coverage limits to safeguard the nation’s monetary system, the pinnacle of the Bank and Trust Companies Association mentioned on Tuesday, after the commerce group known as for higher protection.
The group, representing the nation’s medium and small banks, wrote to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland final month urging the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) to double its protection to $200,000 per depositor.
Canada has the bottom stage of deposit insurance coverage amongst G7 nations, the letter dated Feb. 7 mentioned.
“The CDIC is reviewing their depositor insurance regime to make sure that it is effective,” mentioned Andrew Moor, chair of the group, in an interview. “They are always trying to make sure that things are relevant.”
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CDIC didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
In an e mail, a spokesperson for Freeland mentioned the federal government was dedicated to a “strong deposit insurance framework.”
About 65% of deposits at Canada’s high six banks — Royal Bank of Canada, TD Bank, Bank of Montreal, CIBC, Scotiabank and National Bank of Canada — are uninsured, in response to DBRS Morningstar.
In addition, the U.S. subsidiaries of the highest six have uninsured deposits ranging between 30% and 70%, DBRS estimates.
Around 25% of deposits are uninsured with the mid and small banks, DBRS mentioned in a report launched on Monday.
The latest collapse of regional U.S. lenders corresponding to Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank has raised questions in regards to the stability of economic establishments internationally.
Calls have grown for the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp to supply momentary ensures for all uninsured U.S. financial institution deposits within the wake of collapse of a number of U.S. regional lenders.
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Despite Canada’s decrease deposit insurance coverage cap, analysts have mentioned the U.S. banking disaster is unlikely to unfold to the northern neighbor the place banks are higher regulated and have ample liquidity. CDIC has some 85 members, whereas FDIC has greater than 4,700 establishments.
“Increased protection limits would send Canadians a strong signal about the stability of the financial system while greatly reducing any concern about the damage a ‘run on the bank’ could have on an institution and its depositors,” the Bank and Trust Companies Association mentioned within the letter.
(Reporting by Divya Rajagopal in Toronto and Steve Scherer in Ottawa; Editing by Richard Chang and Josie Kao)
