Financial services

Alberta’s financial services industry is a critical enabler to the growth, scalability and productivity of the province’s traditional and emerging industrial sectors. Its robustness provides our industrial leaders with the needed capital and financial support to become global players, while its breadth provides the self-sufficiency needed to ensure entrepreneurship, equity, and wealth are cultivated and developed locally. Its connections and partnerships provide access to foreign markets and the opportunity to attract capital and expertise from across the globe. All of these factors help develop a stronger, more resilient and more diversified provincial economy.

A strong and competitive financial services sector is vital to a well-functioning capital market in the province and connects those willing to invest or loan capital and those in need of capital. A variety of financial services providers allows for varying degrees of risk capital that is needed to initiate everything from oil sands expansions to housing construction to personal loans to technology commercialization. Innovation within the Alberta financial services sector has generated new products fulfilling a number of diverse needs ranging from Cattle Price Insurance Programs to Alberta Capital Bonds to Public-Private Partnerships to Seed Capital Fund of Funds.

To learn more about Alberta’s financial services industry sector, see:

• About the industry
• Opportunities
• News 
• Policies and regulations
• Industry stakeholders

For business information see:

• Exporting your products
• Productivity improvement
• Hiring foreign workers
• Alberta business resources

For investment information see:

• Reasons to invest in Alberta
• How to invest in Alberta

Contact

For more information on the financial services sector, contact:

Antonio Hurtado, Manager, Industry Development/Financial Services

Date Updated:
RDP-2053