[Wendell FOX]

The distinctive, iconic "M" of First Canadian Place (the city's tallest skyscraper, not counting the CN Tower of course) will finally succumb to the Bank of Montreal's corporate decision to display "BMO" as it logo:



Spreading its image as BMO is expected to decrease the perception that it is a "Montreal" bank and get better recognition from American investors.

shot by Lucky24:



The Bank of Montreal's HQ technically is still located in Montreal, but almost all of their operations are located in Canada's financial capital, TO, even though it's ironic that its office tower towers over Toronto's "hometown" bank, Toronto Dominion or TD Bank. (TD does have control over both the original TD complex and what was once the Canada Trust Tower (which is taller) though)

[Cotuit]

Wendell FOX, on Jun 30 2004, 09:24 PM, said:

Spreading its image as BMO is expected to decrease the perception that it is a "Montreal" bank and get better recognition from American investors.

Hmmm, I dunno, what does the 'O' stand for, 'cos the 'BM' makes me think of Bowel Movement.

[BrandonTO416]

LOL, I've never thought of it like that.

The new BMO logo has grown on me, it took a while to get used to though.