Scotiabank Mexico Loan Growth May Quicken in 2007

Bloomberg, Adriana Arai, 19 September 2006Bank of Nova Scotia, Canada's third-largest bank, may speed up lending growth in Mexico next year because of growing demand for mortgages, said Anatol von Hahn, chief executive of the bank's Mexican unit.Von Hahn said lending growth will be above 20 percent this year and next. He declined to provide more specifics."We'll grow next year at the same pace as