National Bank Financial is a truly integrated firm, combining retail advisory and brokerage services with institutional brokerage, investment banking, corporate finance and securities clearing services for third parties. The Firm has a substantial presence in all regions of Canada as well as operations in the United States and Europe, and yet remains unique among major Canadian investment dealers for the depth of its coverage of the Quebec market. It not only plays a leading role in all major Canadian investment markets, but is also active in a number of specialized and rapidly growing related businesses.

National Bank Financial has 3,060 employees, largely working in offices located in all major Canadian urban centers. The Firm's business unit serving individual investors has 750 Investment Advisors in an 86 branch-network that extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, and manages some $52.5 billion of assets for roughly 250,000 Canadians. National Bank Financial is also Canada's largest provider of clearing services to third party investment dealers and portfolio managers, independent securities firms, financial planners, investment counselors and money managers. The Firm's Correspondent Network's clientele encompasses more than 100 independent financial service firms, who entrust NBCN with the administration of a further $47 billion, bringing the Firm's total assets under administration to just under the $100 billion mark. Annual revenues of $1.1 billion place it among the leaders in the Canadian investment industry.

Although its capital base of $875 million makes National Bank Financial very strong on a stand-alone basis, it draws additional solidity from being an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Bank of Canada, which has a market capitalization of $9.8 billion. An active social and economic force for the past 140 years, the National Bank of Canada is the country's sixth largest chartered bank, with assets in excess of $105 billion. The National Bank's head office is located in Montreal and its Canadian network can boast of close to 500 branches.

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