Fair Finance
Watch is a Non-Governmental Organization Focused on the Fairness of the Financial Services
Industries - Banking, Insurance and Securities - to Local Communities, Urban and Rural,
North and (Global) South, including under Human
Rights Laws
FFW researches, documents and advocates around financial firms' activities, and how
they affect local communities. The profiles below are in-process -- For or with more
information, contact us.
Mexico
Canada
Banking (and insurance) regulator:
Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI)
Kent Square, 255 Albert Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0H2, Canada
Tel + (1) 613 990 7788
Fax + (1) 613 990 5591
Web www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca
OSFI is instructed to "strive to protect the interests of depositors, creditors and
policy holders" (while at the same time "having due regard" for the fact
that financial institutions should be allowed to compete effectively)
Banking law: see,
http://www.gbld.org/intermediate.aspx?targ=country_details.aspx&mode=country&countryid=5
Some Experience:
The agency has confirmed that it considers public comments, for example those submitted in
connection with Royal Bank of Canada
- Centura, and applications by CIBC and Toronto-Dominion.
Canadian Human Rights
Commission; and see HumanRightsEnforcement.org
and, Canadian
Community Reinvestment Coalition
Mexico
Regulatory contacts:
La Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores
Attn: Lic. Ernesto Díaz González Cabrera Gerente Vicepresidencia de Asuntos
Internacionales y Difusión
Avenida Insurgentes Sur 1971
Colonia Guadalupe Inn.
Delegación Alvaro Obregón
México D.F., C.P. 01020
Tel: (52) (55) 57-24-6000
Web: www.cnbv.gob.mx/contacto.asp?com_id=0
E-mail: info@cnbv.gob.mx
and
Secretaria de Hacienda y Crédito Público (SHCP)
E-mail: webmaster [at] shcp.gob.mx
and quejanet [at] cishcp.gob.mx
Web: www.shcp.gob.mx
www.shcp.gob.mx/english/index.html
Consumer protection:
National Comission for the Protection and Defense of Financial Services Users (CONDUSEF)
Insurgentes Sur # 762
Col. Del Valle,
Del. Benito Juárez,
C. P. 03100
México, D. F.
Web: www.condusef.gob.mx/
E-mail: opinion [at] central.condusef.gob.mx
See generally: www.condusef.gob.mx/inf_gen/inf_gen.htm
And: www.condusef.gob.mx/ingles/infgeneral_ingles/where_submit_complaint.htm
FOI: Ley Federal de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información Pública Gubernamental
http://www.cnbv.gob.mx/recursos/LFTAIPG.pdf
A recent comment to the CNBV on mergers was responded to:
"We thank you for your interest in our regulatory process and in our Financial
System. We would like to inform you that our Commission does not receive applications for
licenses or mergers nor does it provide approvals for them. The Financial Authority in
charge of issuing licenses and approving mergers is Secretaria de Hacienda y Crédito
Público (SHCP). Their website is www.shcp.gob.mx
See also, "Impugan la Fusión Entre Citigroup y Banamex," Excelsior (Mexico),
June 5, 2001
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/0106/010605/fin11.html
"Impugnan Adquisición de Banacci por Citigroup," EsMas.com, June 4, 2001
http://www.esmas.com/albertoaguilar/nota_6_2877.html
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FFW
researches, documents and advocates around financial firms' activities, and how they
affect local communities. FFW files its findings with tribunals, regulatory agencies, and
elsewhere, including on this Web site . Click here to view analyses of several
multinational financial institutions' effects on consumers and the environment, worldwide:
for two examples, Citigroup and HSBC. Click here for some initial brainstorming on the application
of human rights and international law to the global financial services companies, and for
citations (where possible, links)
to resource material. Click here for some September 2004 campaigns -- PNC/Riggs (Finance Watch Reports of August 16,
2004, onwards), J.P. Morgan Chase,
etc.. Click here for an
ongoing report on the campaign to reform anti-money laundering, tax haven, and bank
secrecy laws. Click here for
the Human Rights Enforcement project,
including its new (9/04) criminal
justice and local human rights project. For or with more information, contact us.
For More information, see:
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