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Lending banking & currency exchange in Canada_

As of 4 November 2026, 8,781 lending banking & currency exchange companies are based in Canada; 84 are hiring right now and Toronto has the most.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies
8,781
Hiring now
84 · 57 new in 30 d
Largest niche
Mortgage & property finance · 5,890
Top city
Toronto · 325
Parent market
Business & finance services · 85,371
8,781lending banking & currency exchange companies in Canada
84hiring today
57opened a role in the last 30 days
20niches inside the segment
02 — Niches, sizes, cities

Lending banking & currency exchange in Canada, broken down

By niche
companiesshare
Mortgage & property finance
5,89067%
Consumer finance companies
1,20114%
Short term consumer lending
5606%
Direct SME business lenders
5086%
Vehicle & asset finance
5006%
Loan comparison portals
2643%
Currency exchange & money transfer
2623%
Business finance brokers
2493%
Retail & commercial banks
2062%
Other lending banking & currency exchange
2052%
General consumer credit brokers
1652%
Credit unions
1422%
Receivables factoring
1342%
Consumer debt relief claims
1101%
Independent financial advisers
441%
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
2,277 · 0
2-10 employees
4,843 · 4
11-50 employees
1,369 · 13
51-200 employees
199 · 33
201-500 employees
48 · 15
501-1000 employees
21 · 7
1001-5000 employees
16 · 8
5001-10000 employees
2 · 1
10,001+ employees
6 · 3
By city
companiesshare
Toronto
3254%
Port Coquitlam
3073%
Markham Outer Southwest
2603%
Mississauga (West Rathwood / East Hurontario / SE Gateway)
2483%
Langley
1662%
Québec
1432%
Montréal
1352%
Laval
1342%
Vaughan
961%
Surrey Upper West
931%
Mississauga (Matheson / East Rathwood)
801%
Richmond Hill Southeast
771%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest lending banking & currency exchange companies in Canada

The largest companies of the segment, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

TD Canada TrustRetail & commercial banks · Downtown Toronto (Toronto Dominion Centre / Design Exchange)10,001+ employeesATBRetail & commercial banks · Edmonton (North Downtown)5001-10000 employeesFirst National Financial LPMortgage & property finance · Downtown Toronto (Harbourfront East / Union Station / Toronto Island)1001-5000 employeesMCAPMortgage & property finance · Downtown Toronto (Richmond / Adelaide / King)1001-5000 employeesBusiness Development Bank of Canada (BDC)Direct SME business lenders · Downtown Montreal East1001-5000 employeesFCCDirect SME business lenders · Regina Central1001-5000 employeesNorthbridge Financial CorporationInsurance companies underwriters · Downtown Toronto (Richmond / Adelaide / King)1001-5000 employeesVancityRetail & commercial banks · Vancouver (Strathcona / Chinatown / Downtown Eastside)1001-5000 employeesAlterna SavingsRetail & commercial banks · Ottawa (Westboro)501-1000 employeesUNI Coopération financièreMortgage & property finance · Caraquet501-1000 employeesCentral 1Retail & commercial banks · Vancouver (NW Shaughnessy / East Kitsilano / Quilchena)501-1000 employeesKindred Credit UnionCredit unions · Kitchener South201-500 employeesKawartha Financial ServicesCredit unions · Peterborough South201-500 employeesCMLSMortgage & property finance · Downtown Montreal North201-500 employeesNorthern Credit UnionCredit unions · Sault Ste. Marie Central201-500 employeesEast Coast Credit UnionCredit unions201-500 employeesCornerstone Credit UnionCredit unions · Regina Central201-500 employeesAccess Credit UnionCredit unions · Winkler201-500 employeesSteinbach Credit UnionCredit unions · Steinbach201-500 employeesHomeEquity BankMortgage & property finance · Downtown Toronto (Harbourfront East / Union Station / Toronto Island)201-500 employees
8,781 lending banking & currency exchange companies in Canada.

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04 — What they run

The stack of lending banking & currency exchange in Canada

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8,781 lending banking & currency exchange companies are based in Canada; 84 are hiring right now and Toronto has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/business_finance_services/canada/lending_banking_and_currency_exchange)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
  • Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
  • HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
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Lending banking & currency exchange in Canada: questions

How many lending banking & currency exchange companies are there in Canada?

8,781 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.

What is a sub-vertical?

The middle level of our industry tree: Business & finance services → Lending banking & currency exchange → leaf niches such as mortgage & property finance, consumer finance companies, short term consumer lending. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.

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