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BMO Forms Partnership with Canal Road Group to Enable $1 Billion Investment in Direct Lending

Jan 10, 2025•over 1 year ago

Contract Type

partnership

TorontoProfessional ServicesFinancial Services

Description

BMO Financial Group has entered a partnership with alternative asset manager Canal Road Group, allowing the latter to invest up to $1 billion in direct lending. This partnership reflects BMO's strategy to expand its presence in the private credit market, and it exemplifies the trend of alliances between banks and private credit managers to navigate regulatory challenges and capital limitations.

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Company

BMO Financial Group

Location

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

About

Serving customers for 200 years and counting, BMO is a highly diversified financial services provider - the 8th largest bank, by assets, in North America. With total assets of $988 billion as of October 31, 2021, and a team of diverse and highly engaged employees, BMO provides a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers and conducts business through three operating groups: Personal and Commercial Banking, BMO Wealth Management and BMO Capital Markets. SOURCE BMO Financial Group

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