Bank News September 2004 The Bank goes on tour to Belgium! A meeting of the Fine-Arts/Finance minds will be held the last 2 weeks of the month.
	June 2004 Happy 3rd Birthday, Bank of Victoria!
	June 2003 CEO Victoria Stanton met with dozens of new clients during the Art Qui Fait Boum! exhibition in Montreal, Canada. We also celebrated the Bank's 2nd birthday. Merriment, cake, and cheques abounded! Thanks to all those who came out to celebrate.

Beyond Banking

In 2001, a pressing matter came to my attention in the form of a question: If Art is Life is Art, then what does Art have to do with Banking? And the answer was obvious: Not a whole lot.

But this quick conclusion didn't satisfy me and I soon found myself developing a model for transgressing not only the previously explored boundaries existing between Art and Life, but as yet the tangible and relatively uncharted borders entrenched firmly between Art and Banking.

In short, I started this project because of a need to go Beyond Banking. I saw a need to invest in personal, one-to-one communication. And because a friend and colleague – IT architect/composer, Stephen C. – was in debt for CND$13,000. I hated seeing a fellow artist suffer like that. Credit cards are killers. As a Life-Art Advisor specializing in Financially-Induced Emotional Crisis I wrote him a cheque from the bottom of my heart. I then called it Art and with that, I inaugurated the Bank of Victoria.

He's still in debt today but his heart is now fuller, beating with the compassion of my Bank. And in his fist lies my sweaty Art.

What more could any financially and emotionally distressed client ask for?