If you’ve ever been knee-deep in a mortgage application and suddenly heard someone at the bank say, “This needs to go to ACE,” you might have felt your stomach drop. Don’t worry—it’s not a bad thing. In fact, at Scotiabank, ACE stands for Adjudication Centre of Expertise, and it’s their in-house team that takes a second look at mortgage files that fall just outside the usual approval box.

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