The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Banque royale du Canada is a Canadian multinational financial services company and the largest bank in Canada by market capitalization.
The bank serves over 16 million clients and has 86,000+ employees worldwide. The bank was founded in 1864 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and maintains a corporate headquarters in Toronto and its head office in Montreal.
RBC’s institution number (or bank number) is 003. In November 2017, RBC was added to the Financial Stability Board’s list of global systemically important banks.
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 is the U.S. banking subsidiary which formerly operated 439 branches across six states in the Southeastern United States, but now only offers cross-border banking services to Canadian travellers and expats.
RBC also has 127 branches across seventeen countries in the Caribbean, which serve more than 16 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.
In 2011, RBC was the largest Canadian company by revenue and market capitalization and was ranked at No. 50 in the 2013 Forbes Global 2000 listing.
The company has operations in Canada and 36 other countries, and had US$673.2 billion of assets under management in 2014.
Traded as: TSX: RY; NYSE: RY; S&P/TSX 60 component
Industry: Financial services
Founded: Halifax, Nova Scotia 1864; 157 years ago
Headquarters: Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Services: Retail banking, corporate banking, investment banking, mortgage loans, private banking, wealth management, credit cards, finance and insurance
Subsidiaries:
Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago
Website: www.rbc.com
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