News Releases

- Renovated historic branch offers customers a full-service BMO Nesbitt Burns office and extended banking hours, including Saturdays

- BMO boosts credit to Canadian businesses by $10 billion - money available to companies in Kitchener-Waterloo to help grow their operations

- A $5,000 donation will be presented to The Family & Children's Services of the Waterloo Region Foundation

- Canadians place much higher importance on salary and job flexibility than a good pension plan when evaluating job opportunities

- More than half do not know what their ideal workplace pension would look like

- Half of working Canadians have already had five or more employers; 20 per cent expect to have worked for 10 or more employers over their careers

- Including Boxing Day purchases, Canadians who shopped this holiday season spent an average of $1029 over the holiday season - approximately $300 less than planned

- Most Canadians indicated that holiday spending will not keep them from meeting financial obligations or goals in 2012

- Reducing overall household debt number one priority for Canadians heading into 2012

BMO Retirement Institute to Hold Conference Call on Tuesday, January 31st at 11:30 am ET to Brief Media on New Pension Report

- Moderate activity, stable prices anticipated through 2013

- Low interest rates should hold affordability in check allowing household income to catch up with prices

- Currently strong sales in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland & Labrador, as well as in Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Halifax and Ottawa

- Previously red-hot Vancouver softening

- BMO advises homeowners to choose a 25 year amortization

- Donation supports the new "Our World: BMO Sustainability Gallery" part of Science World's Bridging the Science Gap capital campaign

- Ceremony at BMO Power of Blue Day, all BMO customers received free admission when they showed their BMO debit or credit card