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- Best Consumer Internet Bank in Canada
- Best Corporate/Institutional Internet Bank in Canada
- Best Online Deposits Acquisition
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TORONTO, July 20 /CNW/ - TD Canada Trust's award-winning internet banking site has been named "Best Consumer Internet bank in Canada" for the third year in a row as part of the "World's Best Internet Banks" competition by Global Finance, an international financial magazine.
TD Canada Trust has also been awarded two other distinctions for 2006 - "Best Corporate/Institutional Internet Bank in Canada" and the "Best Online Deposits Acquisition" in North America.
The Global Finance award results will be formally announced in the September 2006 issue of the magazine.
"We're thrilled that, for the third straight year, we've been named as the Best Consumer Internet Bank in Canada," said Jeff van Duynhoven, Vice President, Electronic Banking, TD Canada Trust. "We are also very proud of two new awards this year. The 'Best Corporate/Institutional Internet Bank in Canada' award recognizes our Web Business Banking as the leading cash management services platform in the country for commercial and corporate businesses. And the 'Best Online Deposits Acquisition' award for North America recognizes the focus we've placed on making it simple, fast and easy for our customers to open new accounts online with TD Canada Trust."
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TD Canada Trust's EasyWeb was chosen among other entries across North
America based on a number of criteria, including:
- strength of strategy for attracting and servicing online customers
- success in getting clients to use web offerings
- growth in number of online customers
- breadth of product offerings
- evidence of tangible benefits gained from Internet initiatives
- web site design and functionality.
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The competition was evaluated by a world-class judging panel consisting of representatives from Tata Infotech and Global Finance editors.
TD Canada Trust is committed to providing customers with the best in online products, services, features, and security. With the EasyWeb Security Guarantee, customers will receive 100% reimbursement in the unlikely event account losses occur resulting from unauthorized online banking activity. TD Canada Trust was the first among the major Canadian banks to offer an online security commitment. Two recent enhancements include a new feature called "Click to Talk," which makes it easy for online customers to reach a banking specialist right away, and Symantec Norton Confidence Online, a free anti-phishing tool that boosts security for customers.
EasyWeb is Canada's leading Internet banking service. In addition to awards it has received from Global Finance, the EasyWeb site received the highest ranking among Canadian banks in a recent study by Forrester Research. TD Canada Trust also has the highest number of personal and small business active online banking customers among Canadian banks, as determined by the Online Financial Services Benchmark survey conducted by Forrester Research. And it ranks first among the country's five major banks in online banking satisfaction (Synovate, September 2005).
For more information about EasyWeb, go to:
http://www.tdcanadatrust.com/ebanking/easyweb.jsp.
For more information about Web Business Banking, go to:
http://www.tdcommercialbanking.com/banking/index.jsp
About TD Bank Financial Group
The Toronto-Dominion Bank and its subsidiaries are collectively known as TD Bank Financial Group. TD Bank Financial Group serves more than 14 million customers in four key businesses operating in a number of locations in key financial centres around the globe: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking including TD Canada Trust; Wealth Management including TD Waterhouse and an investment in TD Ameritrade; Wholesale Banking, including TD Securities; and U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking through TD Banknorth. TD Bank Financial Group also ranks among the world's leading on-line financial services firms, with more than 4.5 million on-line customers. TD Bank Financial Group had CDN $388.6 billion in assets, as of April 30, 2006. The Toronto-Dominion Bank trades on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges under the symbol "TD".
For further information: Kelly Hechler, Media Relations, TD Bank Financial, Group, (416) 982-2469, kelly.hechler@td.com
