CIBC addresses the changing needs of Canadians by providing its clients
    with more banking options and flexibility

    TORONTO, Sept. 17 /CNW/ - CIBC (CM: TSX;NYSE) - To provide its clients
with greater flexibility, access and choice, CIBC today announced that it is
introducing Sunday branch hours in select branches in Vancouver and Toronto
beginning later this year.
    "CIBC recognizes the changing needs of Canadians and the increased
demands on their time," said Sonia Baxendale, Senior Executive Vice President
of CIBC Retail Markets. "By offering Sunday branch banking hours, we are
providing our clients with greater flexibility, access and choice that will
allow them to better meet their banking needs - when they want, where they
want and how they want."
    Commencing later this fall, and to coincide with the busiest shopping
season of the year, a select number of CIBC branches in central Toronto and
Vancouver will open on Sundays. These full service branches will offer clients
access to a complete range of transactional services, sales and advice.
    Opening select urban branches on Sundays is one more way that CIBC is
providing its clients with greater flexibility, access and choice. CIBC will
also continue to offer its clients evening and Saturday banking hours in many
of its 1,048 branches, as well access to its more than 3,800 automated bank
machines. Additionally, CIBC clients benefit from 24/7 service over the phone
and on Canada's leading online banking site, cibc.com.

    CIBC is a leading North American financial institution with more than
11 million personal banking and business customers. CIBC offers a full range
of products and services through its comprehensive electronic banking network,
branches and offices across Canada, in the United States and around the world.
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