• Financial
  • Consumers Group Calls for Increased Accountability from Financial Planners
  • Competing Banking Ombudsmen Bad for Financial Consumers
  • Final Betrayal: Finance Minister’s Multiple Banking ADR Decision Harms Consumers
  • Financial Consumers Betrayed by Finance Minister’s OBSI Decision
  • PIAC Letter to Minister of Finance re: Toronto Dominion’s Withdrawal from the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments
  • Objection to the proposed incorporation of Rogers Communications Inc. to carry on the business of banking in Canada
  • An open letter to the G20 finance ministers and G20 leaders from Consumers International
  • PIAC Comments on the OBSI Consultation Paper Suitability and Loss Assessment Process
  • Consumers need more comprehensive protection against late payment penalties
  • Worldwide consumer organisations sign open letter to G20 calling for financial protection for “real people”
  • G20 Summit Seoul: PIAC asks PM to support protection measures for consumers of financial products
  • All along the watchtower: seeking the future of Canada’s payments system
  • Saskatchewan Payday Loan Rate Among Nation’s Highest; Will Hurt Most Vulnerable Consumers in Economic Downturn
  • Consumers Left Out in the Code
  • Regulate Financial Planners in the Public Interest
  • New PIAC Report Studies Importance of Credit Cards to Canadians
  • Proposed Ontario Payday Loan Rate Astronomically High
  • Are You Sure You Want to Continue? Consumer Authentication at the Crossroads
  • Consumer Group Report Reveals High-interest Borrowing Pitfalls
  • Credit Counselling: A Way Forward
  • Credit Reporting
  • Identity Theft
  • Payday Lending
  • Banking
    • Bank Mergers Flash Presentation
    • Canadians Attitudes to Financial Services
    • Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance
    • PIAC comments on Ontario proposals for mutual fund disclosures
    • “White-label” ATMs
    • Automatic Teller fees
    • Speaking Notes on Bill C-38
    • Rural Bank Branch Closures
    • Comments on Bill C-38
    • PIAC Applauds New Financial Sector Legislation
    • Financial Service Sector Reform
    • Negative Option Marketing
    • Time to cut up your debit card?
    • Consumers Benefit Through New Federal Banking Policies and Regulation
    • Future of the Canadian Financial Services Sector
    • Bank Mergers and the Public Interest
    • Advocis/POLLARA Report on Canadian’s Views of Banks and Life and Health Insurance
    • CBA Research Report on Banks and Insurance: Canadian Attitudes toward Access to Insurance Information and Obligation to Purchase
    • Government Must Go Further with Reform of Income Trusts Consumer Group Concludes
    • Comments regarding the creation of a new framework for electronic fund transfers in Canada
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