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Royal Bank of Canada and some of its subsidiaries1 are proud members of Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC).

CDIC is not a bank, nor a private insurance company. CDIC is a federal Crown Corporation that contributes to the stability of the Canadian financial system by providing deposit insurance against the loss of eligible deposits at member institutions in the event of failure. It is funded by premiums paid by its member institutions, and it does not receive public funds to operate.

Find out more about the products at RBC that are eligible for CDIC deposit insurance: Deposit Register of Eligible Products.

Find Out More About the Instruments and/or Products at RBC® That Are Eligible.

Deposit Register of Eligible Products (opens PDF in new window)

Learn the Full Details of Coverage and Limitations Set by the CDIC.

Protecting your Deposits (opens PDF in new window)

To learn more about CDIC coverage, as it pertains to the amalgamation of HSBC Bank Canada and RBC, please visit

HSBC Canada - RBC(opens PDF in new window)

For Further Information Concerning Funds Held in Trust:

Personal

The Government of Canada has made important changes to the rules governing how deposit insurance protection is provided for trust deposits by the CDIC that took effect on April 30, 2022. RBC is a proud member of the CDIC and as such is required to annually remind Trustee depositors to provide RBC with updated beneficiary information ensuring CDIC deposit insurance protection.

This is a legal requirement set out in the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) Act. CDIC requires that we maintain up to date information about your trust account and your beneficiaries on our records to help ensure that these deposits remain well protected by deposit insurance.

For more information about the Trustee / Beneficiary disclosure requirements, please visit: cdic.ca/financial-professionals/member-institutions/compliance/legislation-and-by-laws/trustee-beneficiary-disclosure-requirements/.

CDIC legislation requires Trustee depositors to meet certain obligations which includes providing updated beneficiary information to their financial institution to help ensure that each beneficiary receives separate CDIC deposit insurance protection on eligible deposits, up to $100,000 per beneficiary. The legislation requires financial institutions to remind Trustee depositors of their disclosure requirement every year. If the account has been closed over the course of the year, please disregard this notice.

You are receiving this notification as our records indicate that you are acting as a Trustee for a deposit held in trust for others (i.e., the beneficiaries). As such, you are obligated to keep beneficiary information up to date to help ensure the deposit continues to be protected by Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation, the federal deposit insurer.

If you do not provide RBC with the required information, and keep it up-to-date, the eligible deposits that you hold in trust for others may not receive separate CDIC deposit insurance protection up to $100,000 per beneficiary. CDIC relies on the latest information on our records to help protect your deposits.

Note: If a trust account is not identified as a trust account on our records, funds in that account may be aggregated with all other accounts of the depositor for purposes of determining the maximum eligible CDIC coverage.

FAQs for Personal Clients(opens new window)

Business

The Government of Canada has made important changes to the rules governing how deposit insurance protection is provided for trust deposits by the CDIC that took effect on April 30, 2022. RBC is a proud member of CDIC and as such is required to annually remind Trustee depositors to provide us with updated beneficiary information ensuring CDIC deposit insurance protection.

This is a legal requirement set out in the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) Act. CDIC requires that we maintain up to date information about your trust account and your beneficiaries on our records to help ensure that these deposits remain well protected by deposit insurance.

For more information about the Trustee / Beneficiary disclosure requirements, please visit: cdic.ca/financial-professionals/member-institutions/compliance/legislation-and-by-laws/trustee-beneficiary-disclosure-requirements/.

CDIC legislation requires Trustee depositors to meet certain obligations which includes providing updated beneficiary information to their financial institution to help ensure that each beneficiary receives separate CDIC deposit insurance protection on eligible deposits, up to $100,000 per beneficiary. The legislation requires financial institutions to remind Trustee depositors of their disclosure requirement every year. If the account has been closed over the course of the year, please disregard this notice.

You are receiving this notification as our records indicate that you are acting as a Trustee for a deposit held in trust for others (i.e., the beneficiaries). As such, you are obligated to keep beneficiary information up to date to help ensure the deposit continues to be protected by Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation, the federal deposit insurer.

The legislation, that came into effect on April 30, 2022, creates three types of trust deposits with different legal disclosure requirements:

  • A nominee broker deposit;
  • A deposit held in an account identified as a Professional Trustee Account;
  • A deposit made in trust by a Trustee not identified as a Professional Trustee or a nominee broker.

The rules for a Professional Trustee Account only apply if the Professional Trustee requests that the account be identified as such

Trustees – depositors who hold deposits in trust for others at a CDIC Member Institution and the deposit is not a nominee broker deposit, or a deposit held in a Professional Trustee Account.

Your responsibilities as a Trustee Depositor

Trustee depositors are responsible for updating and providing us with the following information with respect to each deposit held in trust by them to help ensure that each beneficiary of the deposit receives separate deposit insurance protection on eligible deposits, up to $100,000 per beneficiary:

  • Confirm that the deposit is held in trust (i.e. for the benefit of others);
  • Provide the full name of each Trustee of the deposit, and the address of at least one Trustee;
  • Provide the full name and address of each beneficiary of the deposit account that you hold in trust for them; and
  • If there is more than one beneficiary to the deposit account, provide the interest of each beneficiary in the funds held in the trust account, expressed as either an amount ($) or a percentage (%).

Professional Trustees have certain obligations which include:

  • Contacting us to request that some or all of your trust accounts be designated as Professional Trustee Accounts;
  • Confirming with us the trust account(s) you would like designated as a Professional Trustee Account(s);
  • Providing us with the following information about the Professional Trustee or Senior Officer (where the Professional Trustee is not an individual) to meet the CDIC requirements:
    • name
    • address
    • email address
    • phone number
  • Providing us with a signed Professional Trustee Attestation (manually or electronically).

For more information on the responsibilities of a Professional Trustee visit CDIC at https://www.cdic.ca/financial-community/for-trustees/for-professional-trustees/

Where a client’s account is identified as a Professional Trustee account, the client does not need to provide beneficiary information to RBC.

For beneficiaries of Professional Trustee accounts to receive separate CDIC deposit insurance protection, the depositor (that is the Professional Trustee) must maintain its own records about the beneficiary information in accordance with the CDIC Act and by-laws.

Note: RBC is not required to keep beneficiary information for Professional Trustee Accounts.

FAQs for Business Clients(opens new window)

Ensure Beneficiaries of the Eligible Funds Held in Trust are Eligible for Maximum CDIC Coverage.