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Bank Revenues and Profits: The Bottom Line Fast Facts
Bank Revenues and Profits: The Bottom Line Fast Facts
Bank Revenues and Profits: The Bottom Line Fast Facts
and Profits
Fast facts
The majority of
Canadians are
shareholders in Canadas
banks
When banks are profitable, they are stable. When banks succeed,
the economy and communities prosper.
A profitable banking industry works for Canada and Canadians. Banks provide jobs directly and
indirectly, create tax revenues, distributes dividend payments and donate to charities in Canada and
worldwide. Profits also expand the capital base of banks, which in turn maintains the stability of the
system, ensuring the safety and security of Canadians deposits.
Revenues
Provisions for Credit
Losses (PCL)
Expenses
Taxes
Added together, net interest income and non-interest income form total revenue. From total revenue,
a number of items are subtracted, including expenses for its staff, locations, equipment and
technology. Taxes must also be paid out of total revenues.
Net income (after expenses and taxes) is used, among other things, to:
Expand the capital base of the bank;
Make acquisitions.
How do banks
make money?*
service charges
5%
Distribution of
net income*
other
income
39%
provision for
credit losses
other expenses
reinvested
20%
5%
premises &
equipment
in business
taxes
40%
25%
10%
salaries &
net interest income
benefits
income before
32%
taxes 33%
shareholders
56%
34%
Banks and their subsidiaries contribute significantly to job creation and to the Canadian labour
market, employing 280,000 employees in Canada.
Canadas six largest banks paid $8.5 billion in taxes in Canada in 2014 to all levels of
government.
Most Canadians are shareholders in Canadian banks either directly through share ownership or
indirectly through pension and mutual funds. Pension funds and RRSPs are some of the main
beneficiaries of the billions of dollars that the banks pay in dividends each year.
Suppliers to the banks, including businesses of all sizes, all over Canada and the world. Banks
made purchases from outside suppliers totaling about $17.7 billion in 2014.
Banks and their employees are also among Canada's top corporate donors and have a long
tradition of community participation. Canadas charities and non-profit community groups receive
multi-million dollar support from banks and every year thousands of bank employees at all levels
donate their time and talent to charitable initiatives. These contributions help support a broad
range of programs, particularly in the areas of education, the arts, youth, the environment, disaster
relief and health care.
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87 per cent of Canadians have favourable views of Canadian banks a number that has increased
by a remarkable 20 percentage points in recent years. Seventy-five per cent of Canadians give
banks a good performance rating when it comes to being stable and secure.
When rating the performance of Canadian banks, 74 per cent of Canadians give banks a good to
excellent rating on protecting the privacy of their personal information and transactions and 70 per
cent agree that banks are good at introducing new technologies that improve the convenience of
banking.
Sixty-seven per cent of Canadians say that having profitable banks means more jobs, better
pension plan returns and a healthier economy.
The bottom line: when banks are profitable, they are stable. Canadians value knowing their banks
are trustworthy and reliable. When banks succeed, the economy and communities prosper.
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