TORONTO, March 7, 2018 /CNW/ - Scotiabank's Notice of the 186^th Annual Meeting of Shareholders and Management Proxy Circular is now available at Scotiabank.com. It can be found under the Annual Reports and Annual Meeting menu in the website's Investor Relations section. Copies will be mailed to shareholders today.

Scotiabank's Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held in Toronto, Ontario, on Tuesday, April 10, 2018, at 9:00 a.m. (local time) at the Scotiabank Centre, located in Scotia Plaza (40 King Street West, 2^nd Floor).

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Scotiabank is Canada's international bank and a leading financial services provider in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and Central America, and Asia-Pacific. We are dedicated to helping our 24 million customers become better off through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets. With a team of more than 89,000 employees and assets of over $923 billion (as at January 31, 2018), Scotiabank trades on the Toronto (TSX: BNS) and New York Exchanges (NYSE: BNS). For more information, please visit www.scotiabank.com and follow us on Twitter @Scotiabank.

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