Press, Market notices, Press releases
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November 24, 2020
Canadian Alternative Reference Rate Working Group Launches Consultation
The Canadian Alternative Reference Rate working group (CARR) published a consultation paper today on a proposed methodology for calculating CORRA-in-arrears as well as draft fallback language for floating rate notes (FRNs) that reference CDOR. -
November 24, 2020
Bank of Canada announces finalists for the sixth annual Governor’s Challenge
The Bank of Canada has announced the five finalist teams in the 2020-21 edition of The Governor’s Challenge, a competition where university students simulate the role of advisor to the Bank’s Governing Council. -
November 23, 2020
Taking the pulse of Canada’s financial system
Deputy Governor Toni Gravelle discusses how the Bank of Canada is carefully monitoring our financial system as the economy recovers from the COVID‑19 pandemic. -
November 23, 2020
Financial stability and the COVID-19 pandemic
Deputy Governor Toni Gravelle provides an assessment of risks to the stability of the Canadian financial system, including risks stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. -
November 19, 2020
Reminder: Changes to legal tender status will take effect in 2021
In accordance with amendments to the Bank of Canada Act and the Currency Act approved by Parliament in 2018, the federal government will remove legal tender status from some older bank notes as of January 1, 2021. -
November 17, 2020
Panel remarks
Governor Tiff Macklem speaks by videoconference at the Public Policy Forum’s Sustainable Finance 2 Roundtable -
November 16, 2020
Operational details for upcoming secondary market purchases of Government of Canada securities (November 23 - December 4)
As previously announced, the Bank of Canada (the Bank) launched on April 1, 2020 a program to purchase Government of Canada securities in the secondary market – the Government Bond Purchase Program (GBPP). -
November 16, 2020
Bank of Canada and OSFI launch pilot project on climate risk scenarios
The Bank of Canada and the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) today announced plans for a pilot project to use climate-change scenarios to better understand the risks to the financial system related to a transition to a low-carbon economy. -
November 12, 2020
Helping the economy after the COVID‑19 pandemic
The pandemic won’t last forever. Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn A. Wilkins talks about what the economy will need once we’re past the COVID-19 crisis.