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Fact check: Trump said U.S. banks cannot operate in Canada, which is not true.

Fact check: Trump said U.S. banks cannot operate in Canada, which is not true.

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September 8th, 2026

Fact check: Trump said U.S. banks cannot operate in Canada, which is not true.

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Trump said on Wednesday that American banks are not allowed to operate in Canada. He was meeting tourism executives in the Oval Office.

特朗普周三在椭圆形办公室会见美国旅游业高管时说美国银行不被允许在加拿大运营

He said this when asked if there were plans to restart talks in the US-Canada trade war.

是在被问及美加贸易战是否有重启谈判计划讲这番话的

Experts say this claim is not true.

专家表示这一说法并不属实

According to the Canadian Bankers Association, 15 American banks currently operate in Canada as branches or subsidiaries.

根据加拿大银行家协会的数据,目前有15家美国银行在加拿大运营形式为分行子公司

These include JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, Bank of America, Capital One, and Wells Fargo.

其中包括摩根大通花旗银行美国银行第一资本富国银行

These banks have total assets of about 90.1 billion US dollars. That is more than half of all foreign banks' assets in Canada.

这些银行的总资产约为901亿美元所有外资银行在加持有资产的一半以上

James Thompson is a finance professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He said that American banks are indeed allowed to enter the Canadian market. But differences in the rules may cause confusion.

加拿大滑铁卢大学金融学教授詹姆斯·汤普森表示美国银行确实被允许进入加拿大市场监管体系差异可能造成困惑

Canada puts foreign banks into two groups. Schedule II banks are registered in Canada. Schedule III banks are not registered.

加拿大外国银行分为两类附表II银行在加拿大注册的子公司,附表III银行未注册的分行。

Most American banks operate as Schedule III banks. These banks cannot accept deposits below $150,000, so they find it hard to serve ordinary retail customers.

大多数美国银行以附表III形式运营这类银行不能接受低于15万美元的存款因此难以服务普通零售客户

Experts say these limits may be why American banks do not want to enter Canada. They avoid doing so on a large scale.

专家指出这些限制可能是美国银行不愿大举进入加拿大的原因

Canada's market is relatively small, and local banks already have strong brands and wide networks.

加拿大市场规模相对较小,而现有本土银行已拥有成熟品牌广泛网络

Thompson says American banks must spend a lot to build infrastructure. They want to compete for Canadian retail customers. But at first they can only get a small share.

汤普森说美国银行若想与加拿大零售客户竞争需要投入高昂成本建立基础设施但初期只能抢占小部分份额

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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