Talk:Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

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The result of the debate was no consensus. -- Kjkolb 10:53, 27 July 2006 (UTC) Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce → CIBC – Move per naming convention on using the common name, not necessarily the legal name. Ardenn 02:33, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

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• Support per nom. Ardenn 02:33, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
• Support - CIBC's web site refers to themselves as CIBC. (By the way, two other interesting examples are IBM and HP. IBM is IBM but HP is Hewlett-Packard)--YUL89YYZ 15:42, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
• Neutral. All the Canadian banks are "rebranding" themselves so as to go by their initials, mostly so that they don't appear foreign when doing business in the US. This is also typical of other banks (i.e. ING, HSBC). For consistency, should other Canadian banks have their articles moved (i.e. Bank of Montreal --> BMO; Toronto-Dominion Bank --> TD Bank; etc.)? Agent 86 18:21, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
  • TD is already known by it's Canadian retailing name, TD Canada Trust. As for BMO, possible, but a lot of people still know them as the Bank of Montreal. Heck, my credit card says Bank of Montreal on it. Ardenn 20:46, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose CIBC is only slightly better known than it full out. 132.205.93.88 18:44, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
• Neutral. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is the full name but CIBC is the name that's most commonly used. G.He 19:13, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose. The term CIBC is frequently used, but most people would consider it a nickname or abbreviation rather than the bank's name. TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 21:10, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
• Support. As a curmudgeon-in-training who hates all this newfangled baggy-pants acronymizing (Kentucky Fried Chicken, dagnabit!), I was initially opposed. However, with a bit of searching, I can't even find "Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce" on the CIBC website. The bank says "CIBC" on its facades, ATM & credit cards, advertising, website, etc. Methinks that CIBC is the new "name", that the full moniker is going or has gone the way of "Bayerische Motoren Werke" and "International Business Machine". --SigPig 05:55, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

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