Your company is involved in international financial transactions. You have decided to do business in America.

Allow us to convince you that Montréal is where you should be located…

For financial reasons

• Same time zone as New York City
• One of the most stable, advanced and secure banking systems in the world
• A dynamic, progressive and decompartmentalized financial system
• A leading edge regulatory system
• A well-established financial sector with strong institutional support…

For business reasons

• Highly advantageous tax incentives for your company, your employees and you personally
• According to KPMG, the lowest business operating costs among comparably sized cities
• Thanks to the free trade agreement, access to a market of 400 million consumers
• Located an hour from New York, Boston, Toronto by air
• An available labour pool that is well-qualified, bilingual, often trilingual, and whose rate of turnover is half that in the United States…

For the quality of life

• Public health and education systems that are among the most effective of OECD countries
• Four high-calibre universities, colleges, 450 research centres
• A very safe cosmopolitan city of 3.5 million inhabitants
• One of the most competitive costs of living
• Exceptional sport and recreational facilities
• A cultural life where Europe meets the United States
• A city of gourmets, open to the world …

IFC Montréal simplifies the city for you

You have decided to consider Montréal in your business plan. IFC Montréal offers you an opportunity to become an international financial centre. Being registered as an IFC means:

• Having access to important tax benefits (partial exemption from Quebec income tax, capital taxes and Health Services Fund contributions) for your company, your strategic employees, and you personally
• An unparalleled quality of life
• Being able to establish your company with the support of a team of people devoted to simplifying the city for you…

Not just any city…

Montréal, an international city that has been adopted by:

• More than sixty international organizations, including ICAO, IATA, the World Anti-Doping Agency, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics
• The highest number consular corps members in North America, after New York City
• More than 17 000 foreign students in its universities, colleges and other institutions of higher learning, which places Montréal first in Canada in this regard, and second in all of North America for the number of university students per capita, just after Boston
• Some 1 200 foreign-owned subsidiaries
• More than 40 000 aerospace industry employees, notably at Bombardier, CAE Electronics, Bell Helicopter Textron, Rolls Royce
• More than 50% of all Canadian companies involved in the growth area of life sciences
• More than 4 000 companies with a total of over 100 000 employees in ICT and multimedia, thanks in particular to the fact that Montréal is a world leader in broadband fibre optic networks
• More than 11 million tourists per year

Montréal, a financial city that has been adopted by:

• Some 130 international financial companies registered as IFCs
• The Montréal Stock Exchange specializing in derivatives
• Thirteen Canadian banks, 34 subsidiaries and 11 branches of foreign banks managing assets of $1.6 trillion and employing 235 000 people
• The seven largest brokerage firms in Canada (RBCDS, BMO Nesbitt Burns, CIBC World Markets, Scotia Capital, TD Securities, Merrill Lynch)
• Four hundred financial institutions, including Mouvement Desjardins and the Caisse de dépôt et placement, the largest pension fund manager in Canada ($125 billion)
• A critical mass of large portfolio managers, both private and public

Montréal, a city that offers the best of both worlds:

• A mix of Europe and America on the human scale
• Restaurants that are open to the world, representing the cuisine of 80 different regions or countries. The city was recently recognized as one of the best in this regard by the prestigious Robb Report
• A pleasant life imbued with the rhythms of some forty festivals, including the famous Festival international de jazz de Montréal, with the accents of the Cirque du soleil and its city, seated at one of 150 outdoor patios in the warm weather
• Music with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Opéra de Montréal and numerous musical groups
• Movement with the Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, the Ballets Jazz, Lalala Human Steps and several other troupes from here and elsewhere
• Recreation and the outdoors thanks to the many green spaces, 1 000 parks, one tree for every two residents, 80 golf courses in a 100-km radius, 45 downhill ski areas and hundreds of kilometres of snowmobile and cross country ski trails, skating rinks, etc.
• A variety of spectator sports: from the Formula One Grand Prix to the men’s and women’s international tennis championships to national hockey league, baseball, Canadian football teams, and yes, soccer
• An art of living of which you and your family will not easily tire…

To learn more, please contact the IFC Montréal.
Who knows, your life could take another turn…

Ms. Andrée Corriveau
President and Chief Executive Officer
IFC Montréal
404 St. Dizier Street
Montréal, Québec H2Y 3T3
Canada

1+(514) 287-1540
www.cfimontreal.com
andree.corriveau@cfimontreal.com

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