But it is fascinating that more-or-less the entire Canadian financial establishment - including Toronto-Dominion, CIBC, Bank of Nova Scotia, Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, among others - has grouped together to keep TMX Canadian.

BBC: Is Canada hurt by saying no to foreign bids.......

Michael Woeller, chief information officer of Canadian bank CIBC, just concluded a multimillion-dollar upgrade of 20, 000 PCs, plus servers and networking gear at 1, 200 branch offices.

FORBES: The Customer's Revenge

Rogers and Canadian bank CIBC struck a deal for NFC-based mobile payments back in May, long enough ago that it was starting to fade out of the public consciousness.

ENGADGET: Rogers, CIBC may launch Suretap NFC-based payments on October 15th, require a unique SIM