Banks Build Up Their Insurance Business

The Globe and Mail, tara Perkins, 26 April 2008Customers who pull up in front of the new Royal Bank of Canada branch in Oakville, Ont., might not notice anything unusual. Through the front doors there's a set of ABMs. Turn left and there's an insurance office, turn right and there's a bank branch. Windows and transparent doors divide them.What's unusual here, even revolutionary, is that those two