Starting Student Life in Canada, Eh? yconic and Scotiabank Canadian IQ Quiz Gives International Students Financial Head Start - Seite 2

yconic and Scotiabank also jointly manage programs that offer $750,000 in financial awards for high school and post-secondary students across Canada.

How it works

International students studying in Canada, or planning to study in Canada in the 2015/2016 academic year, can enter to win online by participating in a fun and engaging Canadian trivia contest at FundYourFuture.ca.

To be eligible for one of the eight prizes, students must:

• Be an international student on a student visa (permit must be for one year or longer);
• Be enrolled or planning to enroll in a degree or diploma program at a college or University in Canada in the 2015/2016 academic year;
• Be 16 years of age or older at the time of contest application;
• Be a member of yconic; and
• Complete at least one "What's Your Canadian IQ" quiz by the contest deadline: August 25, 2015, 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET). A skill-testing question will be administered for selected entrants.

For more information about the "What's Your Canadian IQ" quiz, please visit FundYourFuture.ca.

About yconic

yconic has helped millions of students in Canada and the U.S. through yconic.com, the leading student platform that provides access to more than $170 million in financial opportunities and Canada's largest youth-focused market research panel. We partner with select brands, agencies and higher education professionals that want to better understand, engage with and build meaningful relationships with youth. yconic only partners with brands that share our passion for authentically helping and investing in students. For more information about yconic, please visit we.are.yconic.com.

About Scotiabank

Scotiabank is Canada's international bank and a leading financial services provider in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and Central America, and parts of Asia. We are dedicated to helping our 21 million customers become better off through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets. With a team of more than 86,000 employees and assets of $837 billion (as at April 30, 2015), Scotiabank trades on the Toronto (TSX: BNS) and New York Exchanges (NYSE: BNS). Scotiabank distributes the Bank's media releases using Marketwired. For more information, please visit www.scotiabank.com and follow us on Twitter @ScotiabankNews.

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yconic
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Heather Armstrong
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Scotiabank
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