G-20 Summit

Toronto’s financial services sector welcomes the world to Canada


TFSA Overview (PDF: 8 MB)

The Toronto Financial Services Alliance (TFSA) is a public/private partnership whose mandate is to enhance and promote Toronto Region as a global financial services hub.

For your convenience, we have gathered here a variety of information and links to help you understand our sector better, and to provide perspective on some of the issues before world leaders at the G-20 Summit.

The TFSA and its members can provide a variety of experts for comment on financial services, financial services reform and global economic issues. For media enquiries, please contact any of our members directly, or contact Brian Smith at the TFSA, tel. +1.416.822.3130.

Members’ Websites

Links to our members’ websites are available here. In addition, some of our members have set up G-20 web sites with information that will be relevant to people covering the Summit or wanting to know more about Summit issues.

Resources

Canada has weathered the financial crisis better than most. Find out why Toronto is the right place to be right now (TFSA contribution to Perspective Canada magazine – June, 2010).

For an overview of Toronto’s financial services centre, please download a presentation (PDF: 636 KB) prepared for international journalists.

TFSA President Janet Ecker discussed global financial reform during a recent conference in Dublin, Ireland. Full text of Ms. Ecker’s remarks (PDF: 220 KB).

The Economics department of TFSA member BMO Capital Markets Economics has developed a G-20 primer (PDF: 167 KB).

For more information about Toronto as a place to live, work and invest, please visit the Invest Toronto website.

Media

Canada’s remarkable resilience during the financial downturn has attracted attention from the global media. Here is a small selection of the coverage: