OTTAWA, ON, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Klipfolio, a provider of cloud business dashboards, today announced that it received $12 million (Cdn) in a Series B funding. This funding round was led by OMERS Ventures and included all the investors from Klipfolio’s 2015 Series A and 2014 seed rounds, bringing their total funding to date [...]
BURNABY, BC, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) - Millions of people around the world will participate in World Rivers Day on Sunday, September 25. With many of the world’s rivers facing severe and increasing threats associated with climate change, pollution, and industrial development, more than 70 countries are participating in this year’s festivities. Many events around the [...]
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Dave Casper, President and Chief Executive Officer, BMO Harris Bank N.A. and Group Head, Commercial Banking, will participate in the CIBC 15th Annual Eastern Institutional Investor Conference in Montreal on September 21, 2016, at 8:35 a.m. (EDT). BMO Harris Bank N.A. is a subsidiary of BMO Financial Group [...]
TORONTO, ONTARIO, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO)(NYSE:BMO) today announced that the Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.86 per share on paid-up common shares of Bank of Montreal for the third quarter of fiscal year 2016, a 2 cent increase from the previous quarter. The Board of Directors also [...]
TORONTO, ONTARIO, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – For the second quarter ended April 30, 2016, BMO Financial Group (TSX: BMO)(NYSE: BMO) reported net income of $973 million or $1.45 per share on a reported basis and net income of $1,152 million or $1.73 per share on an adjusted basis. Adjusted net income was up 7% [...]
TORONTO, ON, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Scotiabank (TSX: BNS) (NYSE: BNS) today announced that as part of its strategic efforts to enhance customer experience, drive a digital transformation and improve its productivity, the Bank will record a restructuring charge of approximately $275 million ($375 million pre-tax) or $0.22 per share in the second quarter [...]
SUN CITY, South Africa, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — During the closing ceremony of the 26th International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) World Conference in Sun City, ICDE announced Canada’s Contact North | Contact Nord as the host of the 27th International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) World Conference in Toronto, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Burnaby, a suburb of Vancouver, Canada, has decided to celebrate August 8 every year as ‘Taekwondo Kukkiwon Day’. Derek Corrigan, the mayor of Burnaby, visited Kukkiwon in Seoul, and delivered news of the estasblishment of ‘Taekwondo Kukkiwon Day’ to Jung Man-sun, the head of Kukkiwon. Burnaby decided [...]
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Editors Note: There is a photo associated with this press release. Hootsuite, the most widely used platform for managing social media, today announced integration with Instagram. Users can schedule Instagram content, as well as monitor and engage with their Instagram audience from within Hootsuite, giving them a [...]
JEJU, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Jeju pork farms will be provided with quality breeding pigs from Canada, as a livestock agency in Jeju will import 150 pigs from Canadian farms, individually selected by its workers. The agency will start to breed them to provide Jeju pig farms with quality pigs. The selected Landrace, Yorkshire [...]