Scotiabank, the World's Oldest Gold Dealer

Financial Post, Boyd Erman, 8 August 2006At the top of Bank of Nova Scotia's red skyscraper in Toronto, a group of salespeople and traders from the bank's ScotiaMocatta precious-metals unit sit in front of blinking terminals buying and selling gold, silver, platinum and palladium all around the world.Seventy floors below, an underground vault holds stacks of bullion in safekeeping for