The aim was mainly for companies like the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce ( CIBC ), Royal Bank of Canada ( RBC ), and Scotiabank, which ( along with Barclays of the United Kingdom ), when-combined control a healthy majority of Barbados ' local Commercial Banking sector.

After robbing the bank, the robber exited the CIBC, and was preparing to enter a city vehicle driven by undercover police officer Don Milliard.

This was seen as being most evident during the proposed mergers of Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal alongside CIBC and Toronto-Dominion Bank in 1998, which were seen as stopping competition by the then Finance Minister Paul Martin.

** Old Canadian Bank of Commerce Building, Montreal was CIBC's main office in Montreal prior to the move to Tour CIBC

In 2000, after Imperial Tobacco had been taken over by BAT Industries ( formerly British American Tobacco ), Shoppers was sold to a consortium of institutional investors including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. ( KKR ), Bain Capital, Inc., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, Charlesbank Capital Partners, Ontario Teachers ' Pension Plan, CIBC Capital Partners, and Shoppers Drug Mart's senior management and pharmacist / owners.

CIBC was named the strongest bank in Canada and North America, and the 3rd strongest bank in the world, by Bloomberg Markets magazine, in May 2012.

CIBC was the only chartered bank to have a branch on-site at Expo 67.

Before the decade was out, CIBC had introduced the first 24-hour cash dispenser, which would eventually become the ATM.

In 1998, CIBC joined with Loblaws to create President's Choice Financial which was launched in 28 Ottawa area stores.

There was an attempt by CIBC to merge with the Toronto-Dominion Bank in 1998.

* Aplettix Inc 2000: firm specializing in secure transaction systems in the banking sector ; CIBC signed an agreement with the New York based firm in 2000, but the project was later abandoned for alternatives such as VeriSign

* CIBC Leadership Centre: In 2001, the King City facility was sold to Benchmark Hospitality as the bank began to divest real estate or investment in areas outside of its business strategies

CIBC was Mr. Li's choice for financing many of his Canadian ventures, like Husky Energy.

1999 saw a competition between Wood Gundy ( now CIBC World Markets ) chief John S. Hunkin and Personal / Commercial banking head Holger Kluge, with Kluge retiring the firm after Hunkin was selected.

Kassie afterwards founded Genuity Capital and was alleged to have raided 20 key employees from World Markets for his new startup, causing CIBC to file a lawsuit.

* CIBC was named Canada ’ s Best Consumer Internet Bank for the third year in a row by Global Finance magazine in its 11th annual “ World ’ s Best Internet Banks ” competition.

* CIBC was selected by Corporate Knights as one of the Best 50 Corporate Citizens for 2010, marking the sixth time the bank has made the list since the annual ranking began in 2002.

* CIBC was named one of Canada's 50 Most Socially Responsible Corporations in a recent report released this week by Jantzi Research and Maclean's.

* CIBC was recognized by the Sponsorship Marketing Council of Canada ( SMCC ) with the Award of Distinction in the Sustained Success category for its sponsorship of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure.

* CIBC was a winner in one category and runner up in a second at the 2009 Global Six Sigma & Business Improvement Awards.

Nominated for the award by three outstanding charities with which CIBC has had long-standing relationships-Skills for Change, St. Michael's Hospital and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation-CIBC was recognized for the scope of its community investment programs.

* For the second consecutive year, CIBC was recognized with a Silver Canadian Award for Training Excellence in Internal eLearning from the Canadian Society for Training and Development ( CSTD ).

* CIBC was honoured at the Canadian Society for Training and Development ( CSTD ) President ’ s Dinner with a Canadian WOW Award for training excellence in recognition of the success of its CIBC Connection to Employment initiative.

* CIBC has for the third consecutive year been recognized as one of Canada's Best Employers for New Canadians.

CIBC won the award for " Best Project Achievement in Business Enabling Processes " for enhancements to debit card fraud processes.

* CIBC was selected as a member of the Best 50 Corporate Citizens list for 2009 by Corporate Knights.

* CIBC was named one of this country's " Best Employers for New Canadians " for creating an inclusive workplace that allows newcomers to make the most of their skills and education in their new home.

Henry Blodget ( born 1966 ) is an American former equity research analyst, currently banned from the securities industry for lying in his stock analyses, who was senior Internet analyst for CIBC Oppenheimer during the dot-com bubble and the head of the global Internet research team at Merrill Lynch.

* August 17, 2005: CIBC and other banks, companies affected " CIBC says the Zotob worm caused some isolated outages, but did not affect ATMs, Internet or phone banking.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce ( CIBC ) realized an estimated gain of $ 2 billion from its relatively small equity investment in Global Crossing, making it one of the most profitable investments by a financial institution in the 1990s.

The exchange is home to all of Canada's Big Five commercial banks — CIBC, Bank of Montreal, Bank of Nova Scotia, Royal Bank of Canada and the Toronto-Dominion Bank — making the exchange the centre for banking in the country.

** CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank

** Bank of Commerce ( Halifax ), aka CIBC Building, in Nova Scotia, Canada

** Bank of Commerce Building, Windsor, aka CIBC Building, in Ontario, Canada

* The Canadian Bank of Commerce merged with the Imperial Bank of Canada in 1961 to form CIBC

CIBC had long indicated its interest in Canada Trust, but ultimately BAT accepted an $ 8 billion offer from the Toronto-Dominion Bank.

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (, commonly CIBC in either official language ) is one of Canada's chartered banks, fifth largest by deposits.

CIBC sold its corporate and purchasing credit card business to U. S. Bank Canada in October 2006.

In December 2006, CIBC acquired majority control of its publicly held joint venture FirstCaribbean International Bank for just over US $ 1 billion ( Bds $ 2 billion ), from Barclays Bank's acquiring its 43. 7 % stake.

On February 12, 2009 the Trinidad and Tobago Express newspaper reported that CIBC may enter into discussions to buy out CL Financial's stake in the Republic Bank of Trinidad and Tobago.

* CIBC Mellon Global Securities Services: formed by CIBC and Mellon Bank Corp. ( now Bank of New York Mellon ) of Pittsburgh PA 1996 and Canada Trust's ( now TD Canada Trust ) pension and custody business in 1997