Canadian banker snags $750-million in marijuana business as rivals say no
The major banks are starting to circle
The Globe and Mail (Canada)
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
In a down-and-out Canadian town, Bruce Linton dreamed of transforming an abandoned Hershey Co. chocolate plant into the Next Big Thing, a medical marijuana factory. But the pot entrepreneur faced a crisis typical of his edgy industry: Banks shut their doors in his face. Then Linton turned to an old-school credit union - that paragon of community, rectitude, and caution - and found a middle-aged banker named Rob Paterson. The chief executive officer of Alterna Savings & Credit Union Ltd. seemed an unlikely mark. He barely drank and hadn’t smoked a joint since his university days.
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