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Association opens the Toronto Stock Exchange prior to the conference and ball BY STEPHEN WEIR FOR THE CARIBBEAN CAMERA After 20-years of pushing for the advancement and inclusion of Black leaders into the Canadian financial services industry, the Canadian Association of Urban Financial Professionals (CAUFP) has learned a thing or two about how to succeed on Bay Street. Last Friday, the Association held a chalk talk to teach visible minorities how to succeed in a wildly changing work environment. CAUFP organized a one-day conference for Black business and finance professionals to learn about issues and trends impacting Canada’s finance industry and finance professions. They called it the  No Boundaries Conference  and over a hundred people came out to attend it in a conference hall on Bay Street in downtown Toronto. “The theme of the 2018 conference was the Future of Finance” explained association president Abdul-Aziz Garuba. “ What we did was focus on the emerging t...

ACTIVE, INCLUDED AND SUCCESSFUL   By Stephen Weir for the Caribbean Camera Next Saturday night the Black on Bay Ball will be held at the Arcadian Court as the Canadian Association of Urban Financial Professionals (CAUFP) celebrates 20 years of championing Black excellence in Toronto. The CAUFP is a member-based resource organization that provides a link between corporations and the black communities through education, information, and programs to facilitate economic empowerment. For the past 20 years, CAUFP has established itself as a catalyst for excellence and for the advancement of Black leaders in the Canadian financial services industry. “We believe that there should be No Boundaries set for what we should strive to achieve professionally and for the community, or where we can go to achieve success,” said Abdul-Aziz Garuba, the president of CAUFP and Senior Manager, Finance at Royal Bank of Canada. “ The Saturday night ball is an evening...