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RBC creating greater access to banking services for Indigenous Peoples with no monthly fee bank account now available for First Nations, Inuit and Métis
A no monthly fee bank account is now available for Indigenous Peoples across Canada, as one of RBC's first steps to deliver on its inaugural Reconciliation Action Plan: Pathways to Economic Prosperity.
About this update from Royal Bank Of Canada
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