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{{Short description|Canadian bank and financial services corporation}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Toronto-Dominion Bank
| trade_name = TD Bank Group
| logo = Toronto-Dominion Bank logo.svg
| logo_size = 125px
| image = Mies van der rohe 3-6-2006.jpg
| image_size = 
| image_caption = Toronto-Dominion Centre in downtown Toronto
| type = [[Finance:Public company|Public]]
| traded_as = {{ubl|{{TSX|TD}}|{{NYSE|TD}}|{{LSE|0VL8}}|S&P/TSX 60 component}}
| ISIN = {{ISIN|sl=n|pl=y|CA8911605092}}
| predecessors = {{plainlist|
* Bank of Toronto
* The Dominion Bank
* Canada Trust
}}
| foundation = {{start date and age|1955|2|1}}{{notetag|The Toronto-Dominion Bank was a result of a merger between the Bank of Toronto and The Dominion Bank, finalized in 1955. The Bank of Toronto was established in 1855, whereas The Dominion Bank was established in 1869.}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.td.com/about-tdbfg/corporate-information/tds-history/historical-fast-facts.jsp|title=Historical Fast Facts|website=td.com|publisher=Toronto-Dominion Bank|access-date=December 13, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.td.com/about-tdbfg/corporate-information/tds-history/ourroots.jsp|title=TD Bank Corporate History|website=td.com|publisher=Toronto-Dominion Bank|access-date=December 13, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Canadian company histories|publisher=Gale Canada|year=1996|isbn=1-8964-1306-4|volume=1|page=261}}</ref>
| location = {{plain list|
* Toronto-Dominion Centre
* Toronto, Ontario, Canada}}
| key_people = Bharat Masrani, [[Social:Chief executive officer|CEO]]
| industry = [[Finance:Financial services|Financial services]]
| services = Commercial banking
| revenue = {{increase}} {{CAD|50.49{{nbsp}}billion|link=yes}} (2023)<ref name="Financials">{{cite web |title=2023 Q4 Earnings Report |url=https://www.td.com/document/PDF/investor/2023/2023-Q4_Earnings_News_Release_F_EN.pdf |website=Investor Relations |publisher=TD Bank Financial Group |access-date=February 12, 2023}}</ref>
| net_income = {{decrease}} $10.78{{nbsp}}billion (2023)<ref name="Financials"/>
| assets = {{increase}} $1.96{{nbsp}}trillion (2023)<ref name="Financials"/>
| aum = {{increase}} $450.5{{nbsp}}billion (2023)<ref name="Financials"/>
| equity = {{nowrap|{{increase}} $112.1{{nbsp}}billion (2023)<ref name="Financials"/>}}
| num_employees = 103,762 ([[Physics:Full-time equivalent|FTE]], 2023)<ref name="Financials"/>
| divisions = TD Canada Trust
| subsid = {{ubl|TD Asset Management|TD Bank (United States)|TD Insurance|TD Securities|TD Waterhouse}}
| homepage = {{url|https://www.td.com/ca/en/about-td/}}
}}
'''Toronto-Dominion Bank''' ({{lang-fr|links=no|Banque Toronto-Dominion}}), doing business as '''TD Bank Group''' ({{lang-fr|links=no|Groupe Banque TD}}), is a Canadian [[Finance:Multinational corporation|multinational]] banking and [[Finance:Financial services|financial services]] corporation headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The bank was created on February 1, 1955, through the merger of the Bank of Toronto and The Dominion Bank, which were founded in 1855 and 1869; respectively. It is one of two [[Finance:Big Five (banks)|Big Five banks of Canada]] founded in Toronto, the other being the [[Company:Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce|Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce]]. The TD Bank [[Organization:Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication|SWIFT code]] is TDOMCATTTOR and the TD institution number is 004.

In 2021, according to Standard & Poor's, TD Bank Group was the largest bank in Canada by total assets and also by market capitalization, a top-10 bank in North America, and the 23rd [[Social:List of largest banks|largest bank in the world]].<ref>{{cite journal| url=https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/research/the-worlds-100-largest-banks-2021|title=The world's 100 largest banks, 2021|date=December 8, 2021| journal=S&P Global| access-date=December 8, 2021}}</ref> In 2019, it was designated a [[Finance:List of systemically important banks|global systemically important bank]] by the [[Organization:Financial Stability Board|Financial Stability Board]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Financial Stability Board (FSB) news and analysis articles |url=https://www.centralbanking.com/taxonomy/term/3331 |access-date=January 4, 2023 |website=Central Banking |language=en}}</ref>

The bank and its subsidiaries have over 89,000 employees and over 26{{nbsp}}million clients worldwide.<ref name="profile">{{cite web| url=http://www.td.com/profile.jsp| title=Corporate Information| publisher=TD Bank| access-date=August 7, 2015}}</ref> In Canada, the bank operates through its TD Canada Trust division and serves more than 11{{nbsp}}million customers at over 1,091 branches. In the United States, the company operates through their subsidiary TD Bank, N.A., which was created through the merger of TD Banknorth and Commerce Bank. TD Bank serves more than 6.5{{nbsp}}million customers in the United States with a network of over 1,200 branches in sixteen states and the [[Place:Washington, D.C.|District of Columbia]].<ref name="banknorth">{{cite web| title=About Us| url=http://www.tdbank.com/bank/about_us.html| publisher=TD Bank| access-date=March 21, 2013}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Bank of Toronto Building 1915.JPG|thumb|left|The Bank of Toronto in 1915]]
[[File:Dominion Bank, north-west corner, Logan and Danforth avenues (39485542665).jpg|thumb|left|The Dominion Bank in 1930]]
The predecessors of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, the Bank of Toronto, and The Dominion Bank were established in the mid-19th century, the former in 1855 and the latter in 1869.<ref name=offhis>{{cite web|url=https://www.td.com/about-tdbfg/corporate-information/tds-history/ourroots.jsp|title=Our Roots|publisher=Toronto-Dominion Bank|access-date=September 3, 2019|year=2019|work=TD Bank Corporate}}</ref> In 1954, an agreement was reached between the Bank of Toronto and The Dominion Bank to merge the two financial institutions. The merger was later accepted by the Canadian Minister of Finance on November 1, 1954, and was made official on February 1, 1955. The new institution adopted the name Toronto-Dominion Bank.<ref name=offhis/>

In 1967, TD Bank opened its new head office, the Toronto-Dominion Centre in downtown Toronto.<ref name=offhis/> In the next year, the bank entered into a partnership with Chargex (later known as [[Company:Visa Inc.|Visa Inc.]]).<ref name=offhis/> The TD Bank shield logo was unveiled to the public near the end of the decade, in 1969.<ref name=offhis/>

In 1976, TD Bank piloted its first [[Finance:Automated teller machine|automated teller machine]] (ATM), the TD 360, which was renamed The Green Machine, a name it continues to carry.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.td.com/about-tdbfg/corporate-information/tds-history/historical-fast-facts.jsp|title=Historical Fast Facts|website=TD.com|access-date=March 11, 2020}}</ref>

In 1987, Toronto Dominion Securities Inc. was established by the bank.<ref name=offhis/> TD Bank saw growth in the 1990s, with the acquisition of several financial assets including the commercial branches of Standard Chartered Bank of Canada. In 1992, the bank acquired the assets and branches of Central Guaranty Trust, as well as Waterhouse Investor Services in 1996.

In 1992, TD Bank and G4S Cash Solutions, a subsidiary of British security services company G4S plc, began a pilot project in Toronto that developed into a nationwide partnership in 1997. G4S Cash Solutions secured the contract to transport cash and provide first-line maintenance for the bank's ATMs – both cash dispensing and deposit pick up units." By 2010, the partnership had expanded where G4S Cash Solutions operated 2,577 ATMs, 1,093 branch night deposits, 95 weekly balanced cash dispensers as well as eight cash dispensers for branch tellers and 100 across the pavement services and hosted a discussion on the introduction of polymer banknotes in 2011 with leading Canadian financial institutions.<ref name=TDBankOutsourcing>{{cite news| url=http://www.g4s.fi/~/media/Files/Finland/cdv_valsolns_nov10.ashx| title=Nationwide cash service for world's second largest country| date=November 2010| publisher=G4S| location=Essex, UK| work=Value Solutions| editor-first=Roy| editor-last=Stemman| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150507023729/http://www.g4s.fi/~/media/Files/Finland/cdv_valsolns_nov10.ashx| archive-date=May 7, 2015}}</ref>

TD Bank formed a partnership with [[Company:Bank of Montreal|Bank of Montreal]] (BMO) and [[Company:Royal Bank of Canada|Royal Bank of Canada]] (RBC) in 1996 to create Symcor, a private entity that offers transaction services such as item processing, statement processing and cash-management services to major banks and retail and telecommunications companies in Canada. In 2011, Symcor produces close to 675{{nbsp}}million statements and more than two billion pages of customer statements, and processes three billion cheques annually.<ref name="symcor">{{cite web| title=Who We Are| url=http://www.symcor.com/en/who-we-are| publisher=Symcor| access-date=March 21, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315053245/http://www.symcor.com/en/who-we-are| archive-date=March 15, 2013| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="critchley">{{cite news| title=Bank-owned Symcor misses on timing| first=Barry| work=National Post| last=Critchley| date=April 4, 2011| url=http://business.financialpost.com/2011/04/27/symcor-misses-on-timing}}</ref>
[[File:TDCanadaTrustBay.jpg|thumb|A TD Canada Trust branch. Canada Trust was acquired in 2000, and presently serves TD's Canadian commercial banking operations.]]
In 1998, TD Bank and the [[Company:Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce|Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce]] agreed to a merger. However, the Government of Canada, at the recommendation of then Minister of Finance Paul Martin, blocked the merger, as well as another proposed merger between the [[Company:Bank of Montreal|Bank of Montreal]] and the [[Company:Royal Bank of Canada|Royal Bank of Canada]] – believing it was not in the best interest of Canadians.<ref>{{cite book|title=Fitzhenry and Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates|last=Pound|first=Richard W.|publisher=Fitzhenry and Whiteside|year=2006|isbn=978-1554550098}}</ref>

In 2000, Toronto-Dominion Securities bought Newcrest Capital for {{CAD|224{{nbsp}}million|link=yes}} (75 per cent in stock and 25 per cent in cash).<ref name="newcrest">{{cite news| title=TD Securities buys Newcrest Capital| url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2000/11/07/tdsecur001107.html| work=CBC News| date=November 7, 2000}}</ref> In the same year, TD Bank also acquired Canada Trust, re-branding most of its commercial banking operations in Canada as TD Canada Trust.

Ultimately Martin would approve the merger of TD and Canada Trust with some conditions. The new bank sold Canada Trust's MasterCard business to meet the demands of the Competition Bureau due to the fact that TD issued Visa cards at the time and Canada Trust issued MasterCard and competition rules at the time prevented a single institution from the duality of selling both brands simultaneously.<ref name="TD sells 13 retail branches">{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/td-sells-13-retail-branches/article25461950/|title = TD sells 13 retail branches|newspaper = The Globe and Mail|date = May 8, 2000|last1 = Chase|first1 = Steven}}</ref> The Competition Bureau also forced the sale of 13 branches, representing over 120,000 customers, in three Ontario markets where the territories of TD and Canada Trust overlapped. The vast majority of the affected branches were in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, including four in Kitchener, two in Waterloo, four in Cambridge and one in Elmira. All but one branch were sold to the [[Company:Bank of Montreal|Bank of Montreal]] for $50{{nbsp}}million. The remaining branch in Paris, Ontario, was sold to Laurentian Bank of Canada. In all six TD branches and seven Canada Trust branches specifically changed hands to meet the Competition Bureau's requirements.<ref name="TD sells 13 retail branches"/>

In response, TD announced it would close 275 branches, representing 4,900 employees, to adhere to the ruling and to reduce overall costs. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business said the Competition Bureau's decision to ultimately approve the deal would reduce consumer choice while eliminating the chance to create a second-tier of Canadian banking by killing off the Trust industry in Canada.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/td-takeover-of-canada-trust-good-news-for-clients-bank-says-1.198875| title = TD takeover of Canada Trust good news for clients, bank says {{!}} CBC News}}</ref>

===21st century===
In 2002, TD Bank acquired Stafford Trading and Letco Trading. In the following year, TD Bank acquired Laurentian Bank's retail branches west of Quebec. 
[[File:MTA Flatbush South 76 - TD Bank.jpg|thumb|A TD Bank, N.A. branch in {{wipe|New York City}}. TD Bank expanded into the United States in the early 21st century.]]
In 2004, TD Bank entered the American [[Finance:Retail banking|retail banking]] market, announcing an agreement to acquire the majority stake of Banknorth, a New England–based bank, for a total of {{US$|3.8{{nbsp}}billion|link=yes}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/td-bank-buying-majority-stake-in-banknorth-for-3-8b-us-1.517181|title=TD Bank buying majority stake in Banknorth for $3.8B US|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=September 3, 2019|date=August 26, 2004|work=CBC News}}</ref> Banknorth was later rebranded as TD Banknorth after the sale was finalized in March 2005.

In January 2006, the company sold its United States brokerage business branded as TD Waterhouse, which it had purchased in 1984, to Ameritrade. The business was renamed [[Company:TD Ameritrade|TD Ameritrade]].

In April 2007, TD Bank acquired all remaining shares of TD Banknorth, transforming TD Banknorth into a fully owned subsidiary of TD Bank, and resulting in it being no longer traded on the [[Company:New York Stock Exchange|New York Stock Exchange]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.td.com/investor-relations/ir-homepage/corporate-overview/faq-tb.jsp#3|title=Frequently Asked Questions: TD Banknorth|year=2019|access-date=September 3, 2019|publisher=Toronto-Dominion Bank}}</ref> In the same year, TD Bank acquired Commerce Bancorp, a bank based in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Commerce Bancorp was later merged with TD Banknorth to form TD Bank, N.A. in 2008.

In 2010, the bank acquired the Florida-based Riverside National Bank of Fort Pierce; and the South Financial Group Inc. In the following year, TD Bank acquired Chrysler Financial, which was later rebranded as TD Auto Finance.<ref name="philly">{{cite news| title=TD Bank Financial completes purchase of Chrysler Financial| url=http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2011/04/01/td-bank-financial-completes-purchase.html| work=Philadelphia Business Journal| last=Blumenthal| first=Jeff| date=April 1, 2011| access-date=March 21, 2013}}</ref> On December 1, 2011, TD Bank acquired MBNA's Canadian credit card business.<ref name="mbna">{{cite news| title=TD buys MBNA's Canadian credit card business| url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2011/08/15/td-mbna-deal.html| date=August 15, 2011| work=CBC News| access-date=March 21, 2013}}</ref> In October 2014, [[Company:Affiliated Computer Services|Affiliated Computer Services]], a subsidiary of [[Company:Xerox|Xerox]], acquired Symcor's U.S. operations from TD Bank.<ref name="symcorus">{{cite web| title=Who We Are| url=http://news.xerox.com/news/acs-a-xerox-company-acquires-symcor-US-Operations| publisher=Xerox| date=October 4, 2012| access-date=January 14, 2014| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116133207/http://news.xerox.com/news/acs-a-xerox-company-acquires-symcor-US-Operations| archive-date=January 16, 2014}}</ref>

After Moody's Investor Service downgraded the credit worthiness of Royal Bank of Canada to Aa1 on December 13, 2010, TD Bank remained the only one of Canada's [[Finance:Big Five (banks)|Big Five]] banks with a top Aaa credit rating at that point in the Great Recession (at the time, CIBC was Aa2, Scotiabank was Aa1 and Bank of Montreal was Aa2).<ref name="downgrade">{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/rbc-manulife-hit-by-ratings-downgrades/article1836335/ |title=RBC, Manulife hit by ratings downgrades |date=December 13, 2010 |location=Toronto |work=The Globe and Mail |first1=Grant |last1=Robertson |first2=Tara |last2=Perkins}}</ref> It is also ranked number 1 by profit in the Top 1000 2012 listing.<ref name="top1000">{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/top-1000/2012-rankings-of-canadas-top-1000-public-companies-by-profit/article4371923/ |title=2012 Rankings of Canada's top 1000 public companies by profit|work=Report on Business |date=June 28, 2012 |access-date=March 21, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630113748/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/top-1000/2012-rankings-of-canadas-top-1000-public-companies-by-profit/article4371923/|archive-date=June 30, 2012}}</ref>

From 2014 to 2015, TD went through a minor restructuring which included job cuts and other cost-cutting measures, under the leadership of Bharat Masrani, which kept the stock price on a stable upward trend.<ref>{{cite news |title=TD Bank Reviewing Costs; More Layoffs Possible |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/td-bank-reviewing-costs-has-resulted-in-selective-job-cuts-1423763300 |date=February 12, 2015|first1=Rita|last1=Trichur|first2=Ben|last2=Dummett|access-date=December 2, 2019 |publisher=Dow Jones & Company|work=The Wall St. Journal}}</ref>

In April 2020 it became apparent that TD Bank was a significant secured creditor involved in the voluntary [[Finance:Administration (law)|administration]] of the Virgin Australia airline, which has debts of {{AUD|7&nbsp;billion|link=yes}}. The Virgin administrators declared TD Bank held an all present and after-acquired property charge over substantially the whole of the property of certain entities of the airline.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Deloitte|url=https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/au/Documents/covid-19/au-fas-initial-notice-creditors-220420.pdf}}</ref>

In March 2021, TD Bank agreed to buy Headlands Tech Global Markets LLC from Headlands Technologies to enhance its automated fixed income trading platform.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 23, 2021 |title=TD to Buy Headlands for Push Into Quantitative Bond Trading |language=en |work=Bloomberg.com |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-23/td-to-buy-headlands-for-push-into-quantitative-bond-trading |access-date=May 7, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=March 23, 2021 |title=TD purchases Chicago-based electronic bond trading platform Headlands |language=en-CA |work=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-td-purchases-chicago-based-electronic-bond-trading-platform-headlands/ |access-date=May 7, 2023}}</ref>

Bloomberg reported that TD Bank, along with Canada's other large banks, added ESG measures to their chief executive officers' compensation plans.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Orland|first=Kevin|date=March 18, 2021|title=CEO Pay Tied to ESG Sets Canadian Banks Apart From the Crowd - BNN Bloomberg|url=https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/ceo-pay-tied-to-esg-sets-canadian-banks-apart-from-the-crowd-1.1578886|access-date=March 18, 2021|website=BNN}}</ref>

On February 28, 2022, TD made a {{US$|13.4{{nbsp}}billion}} offer for [[Company:First Horizon Bank|First Horizon Corp.]], with 1,159 branches, expected to be completed in February 2023. This would be the second-largest bank deal since the Great Recession in the United States. As of December 31, 2021, TD had {{US$|423.65{{nbsp}}billion}} in U.S. assets, making it the ninth largest bank in the United States. If completed the deal would give TD 1,560 branches in 22 U.S. states.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://journalnow.com/business/local/first-horizon-agrees-to-be-sold-to-torontos-td-bank-group-for-13-4-billion/article_70a2bc86-98aa-11ec-b21c-ab5c9f0a80d0.html|title=First Horizon agrees to be sold to Toronto's TD Bank Group for $13.4{{nbsp}}billion; deal would be second largest in U.S. since Great Recession|last=Craver|first=Richard|work=Winston-Salem Journal|date=February 28, 2022|access-date=March 1, 2022}}</ref> On May 4, 2023, it was announced that the deal would not proceed due to regulatory uncertainty.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/toronto-dominion-bank-first-horizon-terminate-merger-agreement-38d58b35|title=Toronto-Dominion Bank, First Horizon Terminate Merger Agreement|first=Adriano|last=Marchese|work=Wall Street Journal|publisher=wsj.com|date=May 4, 2023}}</ref>

In July 2022, TD Bank announced it was evaluating a takeover of US brokerage firm [[Company:Cowen Inc.|Cowen]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Toronto-Dominion Bank Explores Takeover of US Brokerage Cowen |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-01/toronto-dominion-said-to-explore-takeover-of-us-brokerage-cowen |date=July 1, 2022 |website={{wipe|Bloomberg News}} |first1=Ed |last1=Hammond |first2=Jan-Henrik |last2=Foerster |first3=Aaron |last3=Kirchfeld}}</ref> The following month, TD agreed to buy Cowen for {{US$|1.3{{nbsp}}billion}} in an all-cash deal, paying Cowen shareholders {{US$|39}} per share.<ref name=cowen>{{Cite web |title=TD to Buy Cowen for $1.3 Billion to Bulk Up Capital Markets |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-02/td-to-buy-cowen-for-1-3-billion-to-bulk-up-capital-markets-unit |date=August 2, 2022 |work={{wipe|Bloomberg News}} |first1=Kevin |last1=Orland|first2=Stefanie |last2=Marotta |url-access=limited}}</ref> TD announced that Cowen chair and CEO Jeffrey Solomon would join the senior leadership of TD's securities division following the acquisition, and that the combined business will be known as TD Cowen, headed by Solomon.<ref name=cowen /> To fund the purchase, TD sold over 28&nbsp;million non-voting common shares of Charles Schwab Corporation, reducing its stake in the company from 13.4% to 12%.<ref name=cowen />

==Sponsorships==
[[File:2011 Boston Bruins Stanley Cup parade (5851003120).jpg|thumb|left|A sign for TD Garden, a multi-sport venue in Boston. TD Bank has held the naming rights for the venue since 2005.]]
Toronto-Dominion Bank, and its subsidiaries, are title sponsors for a number of sporting venues in Canada and the United States. TD Bank holds the [[Social:Naming rights|naming rights]] to several multi-sport indoor arenas including TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. TD Banknorth acquired the naming rights for the Boston-based venue in 2005, with the venue being known as TD Banknorth Garden until 2007. After TD Banknorth was merged to form TD Bank, N.A., the venue dropped Banknorth from the name and was branded as TD Garden.

Other indoor stadiums sponsored by TD Bank include TD Station in Saint John, New Brunswick; and TD Place Arena in Ottawa, Ontario. TD Place Arena forms a part of TD Place at Lansdowne Park. The bank also holds the naming rights to the outdoor stadium at TD Place, known as TD Place Stadium. Other outdoor stadiums sponsored by TD Bank include TD Stadium in London, Ontario, and TD Ballpark in Dunedin, Florida.

==Controversies==
In 2010, a suspicious customer trading at TD Bank in the UK was fined £750,000 (US$1.16&nbsp;million) by the Financial Services Authority for intentionally [[Finance:Mismarking|mismarking]] his trading positions.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904563904576584861981916594.html|title=U.K. Sets Its Sights on 'Rogue' Traders|first=David Enrich, Cassell Bryan-Low and Sara Schaefer|last=Muñoz|date=September 22, 2011|work=The Wall Street Journal |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

News outlets reported the bank's policy regarding ordinary Iranian-Canadian citizens, July 10, 2012.<ref name="puzzled">{{cite news| title=Iranian-Canadians furious over closure of TD Bank accounts| url=https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2012/07/12/iraniancanadians_furious_over_closure_of_td_bank_accounts.html| work=Toronto Star| date=July 12, 2012| last=Kane| first=Laura| access-date=October 7, 2015}}</ref>  Some one hundred personal bank accounts had been closed to this date, citing the recent ambiguous Special Economic Measure Regulation of the Canadian government. A family in Vancouver was forced to refinance a $250,000 house mortgage in 60 days to avoid foreclosure.<ref name="puzzled"/>

A TD Bank document became the focus of a 2012 contempt hearing in Miami federal court. In a civil lawsuit against TD Bank, a jury found the bank liable for aiding alleged Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein's {{US$|1.4{{nbsp}}billion}} fraud.<ref name="fraud">{{cite news| title=Controversial TD Bank form was clear on flagging fraud| url=http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/print-edition/2012/05/25/controversial-td-bank-form-was-clear.html?page=all| newspaper={{wipe|American City Business Journals}}| date=May 25, 2012| access-date=January 13, 2014}}</ref>

In 2015, the Canadian news website the ''Halifax Examiner'' reported that a [[Social:Political action committee|political action committee]] (PAC) established by TD Bank had donated over $50,000 to the campaigns of anti-LGBT rights politicians in the United States.<ref>{{cite journal| title=TD Bank: sponsoring Pride and politicians who are against marriage equality| url=http://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/td-bank-sponsoring-pride-and-politicians-who-are-against-marriage-equality/| last=Ward| first=Jesse| date=July 24, 2014| journal=Halifax Examiner|url-access=subscription | access-date=October 7, 2015}}</ref> The article suggested that this was problematic given TD Bank's status as a sponsor of 41 LGBT Pride events across North America; TD Bank made no comment. In response to this article, on October 6, 2015, a motion was brought at the annual general meeting of Halifax Pride to sever ties with TD Bank if it did not provide a satisfactory response to the concerns; the motion was ultimately defeated.<ref>{{cite web| title=Halifax Pride 2015 AGM Summary| url=https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1091691204174362&substory_index=0&id=234475713229253| date=October 6, 2015| publisher=Halifax Pride| access-date=October 7, 2015}}</ref>

On March 10, 2017, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC) news programme ''Go Public'' reported that TD Bank employees had admitted that, under pressure to achieve sales targets, they had increased customers' lines of credit, overdraft amounts, and Visa credit limits without advising them which is against the law. One TD financial adviser says she "invested clients' savings into funds which were not suitable, because of the SR [sales revenue] pressure". Another admitted downplaying the risk of products saying: "I was forced to lie to customers, just to meet the sales revenue targets." In an internal letter to employees, Andy Pilkington, executive vice-president of branch banking, wrote: "We don't believe the [CBC] story is an accurate portrayal of our culture," but the report provided an opportunity "to pause, reflect and ask ourselves&nbsp;... how we can do better for our people and our customers."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/td-bank-employees-admit-to-breaking-law-1.4016569 |title='We do it because our jobs are at stake': TD bank employees admit to breaking the law for fear of being fired |last=Johnson |first=Erica |work=CBC News |date=March 10, 2017 |access-date=April 9, 2018}}</ref> The bank's stock lost 5.55 per cent of its value on March 10, posting its worst day since 2009.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/inside-the-market/td-shares-plunge-as-investors-fear-a-wells-fargo-moment/article34265641/ |title=$7-billion wiped out in one day: Why TD stock took its sharpest drop since the financial crisis |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=March 10, 2017 |last1=Berman |first1=David | last2=Bradshaw |first2=James}}</ref>

In 2017, Greenpeace announced a campaign against TD's financing of tar-sands on the basis of environmental as well as human rights issues. Their campaign stated that tar sand pipelines are not consistent with a transition to a lower-carbon world and that many Indigenous and First Nations communities along the pipeline routes have not given permission for the projects.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/story/638/q-a-why-campaign-against-td-bank-over-tar-sands-pipelines/ |title=Q & A: Why campaign against TD Bank over tar sands pipelines? |date=September 22, 2017 |website=greenpeace.org |publisher=Greenpeace Canada |access-date=June 7, 2022}}</ref>

Following his ended relationship to private-banking with JPMorgan, which was headed by his friend Jes Staley, and his relationships later for over 20 years through Thomas Bowers at The Citi Private Bank and subsequently the Thomas Bowers headed private wealth management division of [[Company:Deutsche Bank|Deutsche Bank]] from 2013 until early 2019,{{notetag|Thomas Bowers left Deutsche Bank in 2015 to be Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Starwood Capital Group and in 2016 was a director on the board at Opus Bank.<ref>[https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/deutsche-bank-death/ Former Deutsche Bank Exec Connected to Trump Loans Dies by Suicide in Malibu]</ref>}} Jeffrey Epstein established a close relationship during 2019, allegedly through Darren Indyke, with wealth management and private banking at TD Bank which was Epstein's bank while he was under investigations in the United States, Brazil, and France at the time of his death in August 2019.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191205080223/https://www.americanbanker.com/articles/td-bank-took-epstein-money-after-deutsche-bank-kicked-him-out TD Bank took Epstein money after Deutsche Bank kicked him out]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://truepundit.com/jeffrey-epsteins-private-banker-at-deutsche-executive-suicide-before-feds-questioned-him/ |title=Jeffrey Epstein's Private Banker at Deutsche & Citi Found Swinging From a Rope:; Executive 'Suicide' Before FBI Could Question Him |date=December 3, 2019 |access-date=December 4, 2019 |archive-date=December 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/2019.12.04-074203/https://truepundit.com/jeffrey-epsteins-private-banker-at-deutsche-executive-suicide-before-feds-questioned-him/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.libertynation.com/the-epstein-connection-follow-the-money/ |title=The Epstein Connection: Follow The Money |date=December 5, 2019 |access-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/2021.04.24-015945/https://www.libertynation.com/the-epstein-connection-follow-the-money/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Pagones|first=Stephanie|date=July 7, 2020|title=Deutsche Bank penalized $150M for Jeffrey Epstein relationship|url=https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/deutsche-bank-jeffrey-epstein-relationship-penalty|access-date=July 19, 2021|website=FOXBusiness|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/jeffrey-epsteins-fixer-who-ran-19122659 |title=Jeffrey Epstein's 'fixer' who ran major modelling agency vanishes 'like a ghost' |date=September 2019 |access-date=June 11, 2020 |archive-date=June 11, 2020 |first1=Paul |last1=Byrne |first2=Peter |last2=Allen|archive-url=https://archive.today/2020.06.11-124054/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/jeffrey-epsteins-fixer-who-ran-19122659|newspaper=Mirror |url-status=live }}</ref>

In February 2022, TD Bank froze two personal bank accounts holding $1.1{{nbsp}}million in funds, deposited to support the vaccine mandate protests in Ottawa.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/td-bank-freezes-two-accounts-that-received-funds-support-canada-protests-2022-02-12/
|title=TD Bank freezes accounts that received money for Canada protests|website=www.reuters.com|publisher=Reuters|access-date=February 15, 2022|date=February 12, 2022|last=Saminather|first=Nichola}}</ref>

==See also==
* List of banks and credit unions in Canada
* List of banks in the Americas
* [[Social:List of largest banks|List of largest banks]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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==Further reading==
*Schull, Joseph, ''100 years of banking in Canada: a history of the Toronto-Dominion Bank'' illustrated by Brad Smith. Vancouver: Copp Clark, c1958. ix, 222 p.: ill.; 24&nbsp;cm.

==External links==
* {{official|https://www.td.com}}

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