Established in 1817, the BMO Financial Group is a diversified North American financial services organization operating under a single vision: to be the bank that defines great customer experience. It serves 13 million personal, commercial, corporate and institutional customers with total assets of CA$ 467 billion and 48,000 employees as of 31 July 2012. It has operations in Canada, the US and Europe and is one of a limited number of foreign banks incorporated in China.