TORONTO, ON -- (Marketwired) -- 11/16/15

Scotiabank will announce its annual and fourth quarter results on Tuesday, December 1, 2015.

Scotiabank Results News Release

• A news release of the Bank's fourth quarter results will be issued in Canada and the U.S. over Marketwired at approximately 6:00 a.m. EST on Tuesday, December 1, 2015.

Scotiabank Results Conference Call

• The conference call will take place on Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 8:00 a.m. EST and is expected to last approximately one hour.
• Interested parties are invited to access the call live:
• Via telephone, in listen-only mode, by calling 416-847-6330 or 1-866-530-1553 (North America toll free). Please call shortly before 8:00 a.m. EST;
• Via the Internet on the Investor Relations page of www.scotiabank.com.
• During the call, listeners may also wish to refer to the fourth quarter results posted on the Investor Relations page of www.scotiabank.com.
• Following discussion of the results by Scotiabank executives, there will be a question and answer session.

Conference Call Archive

• A telephone replay of the call will be available between December 1 and December 16, 2015 by calling 647-436-0148 or 1-888-203-1112 (North America toll free). The access code is 8929747#.
• The archived audio webcast will be available on the Investor Relations page of www.scotiabank.com from approximately 6:00 p.m. EST on December 1, 2015 for three months.

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 87,000 employees and assets of $863 billion (as at July 31, 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.

For further information:

Jake Lawrence
Scotiabank
Investor Relations
(416) 866-5712

Sheena Findlay
Scotiabank
Corporate Communications
(416) 866-6806