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The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC; (フランス語:Banque Royale du Canada)), operating as RBC Financial Group, is the largest financial institution in Canada. The bank serves 18 million clients and has 80,100 employees worldwide. The company corporate headquarters are located in Montreal, Quebec, and its operational head office in Toronto, Ontario.〔〔 The bank was founded in 1864 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. RBC's Institution Number (or bank number) is 003. In Canada, the bank's personal and commercial banking operations are branded as ''RBC Royal Bank'' in English and ''RBC Banque Royale'' in French and serves approximately ten million clients through its network of 1,209 branches. ''RBC Bank'' was the U.S. banking subsidiary with 439 branches across six states in the Southeast, which served more than a million customers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About RBC Bank: Company Profile )〕 RBC also has 127 branches across seventeen countries in the Caribbean, which serve more than 1.6 million clients.〔 RBC Capital Markets is RBC's worldwide investment and corporate banking subsidiary, while the investment brokerage firm is known as RBC Dominion Securities. Investment banking services are also provided through RBC Bank and the focus is on middle market clients. RBC is listed as the largest Canadian company by revenue and market capitalization by ''The Globe and Mail'' and was ranked at 50 in the 2013 Forbes Global 2000 listing. The company has operations in Canada, and 40 other countries〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Corporate Profile )〕 and has 673.2 USD Bn of assets under management according to the Scorpio Partnership Global Private Banking Benchmark 2014, this represented an increase of 5.6% on the 2013 figure.〔http://www.scorpiopartnership.com/knowledge/report/global-private-banking-benchmark-2014/〕 ==Timeline== * 1864 - Merchants Bank of Halifax founded in Halifax, Nova Scotia * 1869 - Officially incorporated as the Merchants' Bank of Halifax. * 1869 - Federal charter received. * 1870 - 1880s - Expansion in Maritime Provinces. * 1895 - Expansion in Newfoundland 31 January 1895 post collapse of Newfoundland Commercial Bank and Union Bank of Newfoundland on 10 December 1894〔 * 1901 - Changed name to Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). * 1907 - Head Office moved from Halifax to Montreal. * 1910 - Merged with Union Bank of Halifax. * 1910 - bank branch designed by Carrère and Hastings, Winnipeg, Manitoba in beaux-arts classicism proclaims the financial dominance of Winnipeg in the prairies. * 1912 - Merged with Traders Bank of Canada in order to improve its position in Ontario. * 1917 - Merged with Quebec Bank, which was founded in 1818 and chartered in 1822 in Quebec City. * 1918 - Merged with Northern Crown Bank, which was the result of the merger in 1908 between Northern Bank (established in 1905 in Winnipeg) and Crown Bank of Canada (1904), based in Ontario. RBC's acquisition gave it a strong presence in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. * 1925 - Merged with Union Bank of Canada, which began in Quebec City in 1865 as the Union Bank of Lower Canada, but changed its name in 1886. Union Bank of Canada had moved its headquarters to Winnipeg in 1912, and built a strong presence in the Prairie Provinces. * 1935 - Crown Savings and Loan Co. merges with Industrial Mortgage & Trust Co. * 1961 - Installed its first computer, which was the first in Canadian banking. * 1968 - Royal Trust merged with Ontario Loan and Debenture Company (formerly Ontario Savings and Investment Society). * 1993 - RBC merged with Royal Trust. * 1998 - proposed merger with Bank of Montreal, rejected by federal minister of finance (see Controversies below) * 1998 - RBC acquired Security First Network Bank in Atlanta, the first pure Internet bank. * 2000 - Merged merchant credit/debit card acquiring business with BMO Bank of Montreal's to form Moneris Solutions. * 2013 - RBC completed the acquisition of the Canadian subsidiary of Ally Bank owned by ResMor Trust. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Royal Bank of Canada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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