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Expand your understanding of spending and saving, discover your place in the economy and explore a world-class currency collection.

The Bank of Canada (The Bank) commenced operations in March 1935 under the terms of the Bank of Canada Act of 1934. Data for the month-end series (Bank of Canada assets and liabilities: Month-end ...

Recent policy changes are having a clear impact on the mortgage market. The number of new highly indebted borrowers has fallen, and overall mortgage activity has slowed significantly. Tighter policies ...

Canada’s commercial banking system consists of privately owned banks that have been chartered by Parliament or have received letters patent by order-in-council as provided for in the 1991 Bank Act.

The Bank of Canada (the “Bank”), as issuer of Canadian bank notes, offers a service for the redemption, in appropriate cases, of claims for Canadian bank notes that have become contaminated or ...

Evan W. Siddall 2011 – 2013 Fort Reliance Co. / Irving Oil Ltd.

The Bank of Canada’s 2019 Financial System Review points to cyber threats and financial interconnections as vulnerabilities for the Canadian financial system. But for many firms, cyber risk is ...

Learn about the publication of, and calculation methodology for, the foreign exchange (FX) rate data on the Bank of Canada’s website. All FX rates are published as the number of Canadian dollars ...

Fixed-income exchange-traded funds (FI-ETFs) typically create and redeem the bulk of their shares in kind. In-kind transactions consist of exchanging ETF shares for baskets of bonds instead of cash.

Foreign demand for Government of Canada (GoC) bonds has increased rapidly since the financial crisis. This sudden interest by foreigners in the GoC market is associated with external events, such as ...

Since the 2007–09 global financial crisis, the total value of Canadian provincial bonds outstanding has more than doubled (Chart 1). At the end of the second quarter of 2018, provincial bonds made up ...