"We do think we have plenty of scale," and the ability to compete with both banks of similar as well as smaller size, White said at a Morgan Stanley conference, adding that the bank's U.S. market share is between 1% and 5% based on the business line, versus 10% to 35% in Canada. "And we do it off the scale of our global balance sheet of C$950 billion."

($1 = 1.2145 Canadian dollars)

(Reporting by Nichola Saminather; Editing by Leslie Adler)