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When good lenders meet bad borrowers

  • McMillan LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • September 7 2009

Financing is fraudulently obtained from Bank A and used to purchase assets

Supreme Court of Canada upholds bank's ability to cooperate with another bank to recover from fraud

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • October 2 2009

Recently, the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed a bank's ability to assist another bank to recover funds acquired by the use of a fraudulent instrument

Gill v. Bucholtz: the British Columbia Court of Appeal and mortgage fraud

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 31 2009

Two recent decisions of the British Columbia Court of Appeal have left lenders feeling unsettled about lending money to finance real property transactions

Norwich orders arrive in Ontario: financial institutions called upon to assist in fighting alleged client fraud

  • McMillan LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • February 18 2008

When a bank’s customer is suspected of defrauding someone, a court may compel the bank to disclose the customer’s confidential financial records to the victim

Looking beyond title fraudulent mortgages

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • June 10 2009

The British Columbia Court of Appeal recently heard two appeals involving fraudulent mortgages

Federal government to introduce amendments to the Criminal Code to tackle identity theft

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • October 2 2007

Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, the Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls, together with the Honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Minister of Labour and Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, today announced that Canada's New Government has developed a strategy to help combat identity theft, which is a serious criminal activity that has become more lucrative than ever before

Diligence helps combat fiscal fraud: law requires ID of clients, but be sure to be precise

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 8 2008

James Smith, Jim Smith and Jimmy Smith are all born on Aug. 27, 1962, and they are all engineers, but only one has been tried and found guilty of drug trafficking

The UBS scandal: voluntary disclosure

  • Miller Thomson LLP
  • -
  • Canada, Switzerland, USA
  • -
  • December 3 2009

Unless you have stopped reading newspapers, watching television or listening to the radio then it is more than likely that you have heard something about the UBS scandal

Filthy lucre: confronting the risks of money laundering

  • McMillan LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • September 21 2010

Venerable and storied, Riggs Bank was a Washington, .C. fixture dating back to 1836

Federal budget 2010 financial sector highlights

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 4 2010

The March 4, 2010 federal budget, Leading the Way on Jobs and Growth, contains a number of initiatives related to the financial sector