RBC Reclaims Crown From Toronto-Dominion as Biggest Canada Bank
ByRoyal Bank of Canada reclaimed the nation’s largest lender title, ousting Toronto-Dominion Bank to recapture the top spot it has owned for most of the past 100 years.
Royal Bank had C$1.28 trillion ($996 billion) in assets at the end of the fiscal first quarter, eclipsing Toronto-Dominion’s C$1.26 trillion, according to financial statements. The Toronto-based banks have traded the No. 1 ranking for about five years, with Toronto-Dominion first surpassing Royal Bank at the end of 2013 following a decade-long expansion in U.S. consumer lending.
Trading Places
Royal Bank and TD have battled to be Canada's biggest lender
Source: company financial disclosures
Ranking based on total assets
Royal Bank first became Canada’s largest lender shortly after World War I, leapfrogging Bank of Montreal following a series of mergers and expansions that helped it develop from a Halifax, Nova Scotia-based merchant bank into a national institution. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce briefly challenged Royal Bank for No. 1 in the late 1990s.