Archive for December 7th, 2007
BDC Fact #7
7 December 2007When parsing the loan book of The Business Development Bank of Canada, there are some interesting statistics regarding the geographic distribution of their loan clients across Canada. Some provinces attract substantially more capital than others when analyzed on a $/population basis:
Punching above their weight:
Newfoundland & Labrador
1.54% of the population, but 4% of BDC’s loans [...]
BDC Fact #6
7 December 2007Between 2003 and 2007, The Business Development Bank of Canada grew their loan book from $6.3 billion to $8.8 billion, about 39%. During the same four fiscal years, The Royal Bank of Canada grew its small business and wholesale loan book 48%, from $52.4 billion to $77.4 billion.
Considering that RBC spent $82.8 million on [...]