Scotiabank is Canada’s international bank and a leading financial services provider in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and Central America, and Asia-Pacific. We are dedicated to helping our 23 million customers become better off through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets. With a team of more than 88,000 employees and assets of $907 billion (as at July 31, 2016), Scotiabank trades on the Toronto (TSX: BNS) and New York Exchanges (NYSE: BNS).

Scotiabank's continued growth and success is founded on several key factors:

A committed team that shares the same values and works together to provide customers with expert advice, insights and financial solutions.

A highly diversified and well-balanced business operating within a clearly defined global footprint.

A strategy with a clear focus on three priorities that will help us build an even better Bank: being more focused on our customers; enhancing leadership depth, diversity and deployment; and being better organized to serve customers and reduce costs.

Our strategy of diversification underpins our potential for sustainable earnings' growth in each of our business lines: Canadian Banking, International Banking and Global Banking and Markets, over the long term.

Canadian Banking provides a full suite of financial advice and banking solutions, supported by an excellent customer experience, to over 8.5 million Retail, Small Business, Commercial Banking, and Wealth Management customers. It serves these customers through its network more than 1,000 branches and some 3,900 automated banking machines (ABMs), as well as internet, mobile and telephone banking and specialized sales teams.