Centre Financier International de Montréal

Montréal -

HOME CONTACT SITE MAP VERSION FRANÇAISE

WHO WE ARE

MISSION

TEAM

PRESIDENT AND CEO

HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS

PROGRAM OBJECTIVE

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

FAQ

IFC BENEFITS

ELIGIBLE CORPORATION

ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEE

ELIGIBLE TRANSACTIONS

APPLICATION PROCESS

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

MONTRÉAL AT A GLANCE

DOING BUSINESS IN Montréal

THE FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

FINANCE IN MONTRÉAL

FINANCE IN UNIVERSITIES

SECTOR HIGHLIGHTS

TESTIMONIALS

IFC DIRECTORY

NEWS & PUBLICATIONS

SITES OF INTEREST

Home > The financial world of montréal

Finance in Montréal

Montréal’s financial services sector is healthy and strong: drawing on a pool of talented and skilled workers, supported by diversified and leading-edge universities, located in an international environment.

Montréal’s financial services sector includes:

	100,000 qualified workers
	3,000 companies

Montréal’s financial services sector is a dynamic sector that is growing faster than the service sector as a whole – 3.4% in 2007.

Montréal’s financial services sector is diversified

Banks and financial intermediaries

-	38% of employees
-	300 companies

Insurance and related activities

-	22% of employees
-	1,300 companies

Securities

-	40% of employees
-	1,500 companies

Montréal’s financial services sector offers qualified and abundant human capital

	25,000 financial specialists
	University programs specializing in finance, notably financial engineering, financial mathematics, etc.
	Six universities with 20,000 foreign students enrolled from a hundred different countries. Montréal is second to Boston for the number of foreign students per capita.
	8,000 finance students, including 1,000 masters and doctoral students
	2,000 graduates per year
	30 academic research units in sectors such as derivatives, pension plan administration, financial and computational mathematics, financial engineering, etc.

Montréal’s financial services sector ranks:

31^st worldwide (September 2008) according to the Global Financial Centres Index produced by the City of London. In the same study, Montréal’s ranked 15^th for Business Environment.

Montréal, an international city that is home to:

	More than 60 international organizations
	More than 1,250 foreign subsidiaries and corporations
	The highest number of consulates in North America, after New York