Posts

• June 19, 2015

  Financial Stability Presenters for 2015

  Topics covered include Labor markets, central bank research, inflation and prices, financial markets, financial institutions and recent economic and financial developments .

  Content Type(s): Seminar
• June 15, 2015

  Historical Assets Eligible as Collateral under the Bank of Canada’s Standing Liquidity Facility – June 15, 2015 to July 22, 2018

  The Bank of Canada, through its Standing Liquidity Facility (SLF), provides access to liquidity to those institutions that participate directly in the Large Value Transfer System (LVTS).

  Content Type(s): Collateral policy
• June 15, 2015

  Changes to Margin Requirements for the Bank of Canada’s Standing Liquidity Facility (SLF)

  As part of the ongoing review of the collateral policy related to the Bank of Canada’s Standing Liquidity Facility (SLF), the Bank has revised the margin requirements applied to certain securities accepted as SLF collateral.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market Notices
• June 15, 2015

  Public Consultation: Draft Terms for Auctions of Government of Canada Ultra-Long Bonds

  The Government of Canada is considering moving to a modified auction format for any future issuance of 50-year bonds (ultra-long bonds).

  Content Type(s): Press, Market Notices

• International Transmission of Credit Shocks in an Equilibrium Model with Production Heterogeneity

  Staff Working Paper 2015-19 Yuko Imura, Julia Thomas

  Many policy-makers and researchers view the recent financial and real economic crises across North America, Europe and beyond as a global phenomenon. Some have argued that this global recession has a common source: the U.S. financial crisis.

  Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Economic models, Financial markets, Financial stability, International topics JEL Code(s): E, E2, E22, E3, E32, E4, E44, F, F4, F41, F44

• Government and Private E-Money-Like Systems: Federal Reserve Notes and National Bank Notes

  Staff Working Paper 2015-18 Warren E. Weber

  The period from 1914 to 1935 in the United States is unique in that it was the only time that both privately-issued bank notes (national bank notes) and central bank-issued bank notes (Federal Reserve notes) were simultaneously in circulation.

  Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Bank notes, Digital Currencies and Fintech, Financial services JEL Code(s): E, E4, E41, E42, E5, E58
• June 12, 2015

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 12 June 2015

  Content Type(s): Publications, Weekly Financial Statistics
• June 12, 2015

  Proposed Criteria and Risk-Management Standards for Prominent Payment Systems

  In December 2014, the Payment Clearing and Settlement Act was amended to give the Bank of Canada responsibility for identifying and overseeing payments systems that have the potential to pose payments system risk (these will be referred to as prominent payment systems).

  Content Type(s): Press, Market Notices
• June 11, 2015

  Release of the Financial System Review

  Opening Statement Stephen S. Poloz Ottawa, Ontario

  Press conference following the release of the Financial System Review.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches Topic(s): Credit and credit aggregates, Financial stability, Financial system regulation and policies, Housing, Regional economic developments, Sectoral balance sheet
• June 11, 2015

  Bank of Canada says risk to financial stability is slightly higher, but system is more resilient

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  Content Type(s): Press, Press Releases