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Equitable Launches 'Completely Digital' Branchless Canadian Bank For PC, Mobile

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 14 Jan, 2016 11:48 AM
    TORONTO — Equitable Group Inc. launched EQ Bank on Thursday as a "completely digital" way to save, pay bills and earn interest.
     
    It's covered by the Canada Deposit Insurance Corp., which provides protection to bank customers up to certain limits.
     
    Equitable (TSX:EQB) counts itself as Canada's ninth-largest Schedule 1 bank, with $17 billion in assets under management and 500 employees across the country — tiny compared with any of the country's Big Six.
     
    It says the branchless EQ Bank is part of a growing trend in financial technology.
     
    EQ Bank's first product is a savings account that provides common types of banking services from a desktop computer or mobile device and pays annualized interest at 3.0 per cent.

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