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Bank of Nova Scotia
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Bank of Nova Scotia company profile

CEO
Scott Thomson
Employees
81,734
Headquarters
40 Temperance Street, Toronto, ON M5H 0B4, CA
Sector
Financial Services
Industry
Banks - Diversified
IPO date
7 Jun 2002
Stock exchange
NYSE
ISIN
CA0641491075

Website:scotiabank.com

About the company

The Bank of Nova Scotia provides various banking products and services in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Colombia, the Caribbean and Central America, and internationally. It operates through Canadian Banking, International Banking, Global Wealth Management, and Global Banking and Markets segments. The company offers financial advice and solutions, and banking products, including debit and credit cards, chequing and saving accounts, investments, mortgages, loans, and insurance to individuals; and retail automotive financing solutions. It also provides business banking solutions comprising lending, deposit, cash management, and trade finance solutions to small, medium, and large businesses. In addition, it provides wealth management advice and solutions, including online brokerage, mobile investment, full-service brokerage, trust, private banking, and private investment counsel services; and retail mutual funds, exchange traded funds, liquid alternatives, and institutional funds. The company was founded in 1832 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Employees

Bank of Nova Scotia had about 0 employees at the end of fiscal year 2025 (31 October 2025), by its annual report.

Employees Change on the year
Fiscal yearEmployeesChange on the yearRevenue per employeeNet income per employee
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Employees at each fiscal year end, as the company reports them in its annual report (10-K); revenue and net income per employee are the fiscal year's over that count.

Who owns Bank of Nova Scotia

Institutions such as funds, banks and insurers held 62.9% of Bank of Nova Scotia's shares on 30 June 2026, 572 of them reporting holdings to the SEC; the rest is held by individual investors and other shareholders.

Institutions 62.9%Other shareholders 37.1%

Shares free to trade

Free float 1.20B shares ·98.8% Closely held 14.69M shares ·1.2%

Closely held shares belong to insiders, founders and owners of more than 5%, and seldom change hands. The free float is the rest: the shares anyone can buy and sell.

Common questions about Bank of Nova Scotia

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