At Scotia Capital our Prime Brokerage team combines our market insight and depth of resources with our bank-backed strong and stable global presence.  Our successes through the Scotiabank Group position us as a strong global leader for our clients.

Recent successes include:

Scotiabank rated among the top ten best performing financial services firms in the world1 Scotiabank has a strong balance sheet with a global footprint Scotiabank has a strong credit rating: AA-Stable (S&P) / Aa1 Stable (Moodys) Canada was ranked #1 for the second consecutive year (2009) as one of the world's soundest banks, by the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report 2009/2010

Scotia Capital - Corporate Recognition:

Best Investment Bank in Canada by Global Finance 2008 Among “Bloomberg 20” most successful global investment banks for 2008 by Bloomberg Markets Three Scotia Capital Managing Directors were recognized with the prestigious Global TopGun Banker(2008) designations, by Brendon Wood International

Prime Brokerage:

Awarded for Excellence and commended (in less than $100M) for single strategy, multi-strategy and single Prime Broker, in the Prime Brokerage Survey, Global Custodian (2009)

Securities Lending:

#1 in the world for service during the recent credit crisis in the Global Equity Lending Survey, ISF Magazine (2008)

Derivatives:

#1 on the Quality Index, #1 as a Lead Dealer, #1 in overall Market Penetration (2009), as rated by an independent third-party survey. #1 in Best After-Sales Service, and #1 in Creative Ideas, in Canada for the 7th straight year (2009), by an independent third-party survey.

Foreign Exchange:

Best FX Bank award in Canada – 6 years in a row by Global Finance (2009) Best Canadian currency forecaster and one of the Top 2 Global Leaders in its Top Forecasters Ranking by Bloomberg (2009) Ranked #1 globally by currency pairs for Euro/Swiss and Dollar/Swiss by Bloomberg (2009) Best Corporate/ Institutional Internet Bank by Global Finance (based on our ScotiaFX online application) (2009) Top FX bank in Canada: A Prestigious Third-Party Provider (2009)

ScotiaMocatta:

Best Bullion Bank 2009 by the Bombay Bullion Association (BBA) ScotiaMocatta Named one of Canada’s 71 Global Leaders by The Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity (2007) For the second consecutive year, ScotiaMocatta received a prestigious award for being the largest supplier of gold to manufacturing jewellery exporters across India, by the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council of India (2009)

1Copyright 2009 Oliver Wyman. Annual State of the Financial Services Industry – 2009. As measured by the Shareholder Performance IndexSM(SPI) of the world’s 400 largest financial services firms. Best performing financial companies with market value >US$15 BN (August 2007to December 2008).