TORONTO, ON - August 29, 2014 /CNW/ - Brian Porter, Scotiabank's President and Chief Executive Officer, will address the 15^th Annual Global Banking & Markets Financials Summit in Toronto on September 3, 2014. The conference provides participants with the opportunity to hear Canada's leading financial services companies review their corporate strategies and discuss current topics and trends in the financial markets.

Mr. Porter's 30-minute presentation will start at approximately 8:00 a.m. EDT and includes a question-and-answer session. Listeners may access the conference via an audio link. The conference will be archived for three months.

Since 1998, Scotiabank Global Banking & Markets' Industry Conferences have been ranked No. 1 in Canada by independent surveys.

Scotiabank's Global Banking & Markets (GBM) division provides corporate and investment banking and capital markets products and services to corporate, institutional and government clients across the globe. GBM has over 30 offices around the world and more than 300 relationship managers, organized around industry specialties. For more information, please visit www.gbm.scotiabank.com.

Scotiabank is a leading financial services provider in over 55 countries and Canada's most international bank. Through our team of more than 86,000 employees, Scotiabank and its affiliates offer a broad range of products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management, corporate and investment banking to over 21 million customers. With assets of $792 billion (as at July 31, 2014), Scotiabank trades on the Toronto (TSX: BNS) and New York (NYSE: BNS) Exchanges. Scotiabank distributes the Bank's media releases using CNW. For more information please visit scotiabank.com.

For further information please contact: 

Devinder Lamsar 
(416) 933-1171
devinder.lamsar@scotiabank.com