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• August 8, 2025

  Update on Payment Service Providers Registry

  On September 8, 2025, the Bank of Canada will begin to publish a list of Payment Service Providers (PSPs) that have been registered under the Retail Payment Activities Act, as well as the names of entities whose applications have been refused.

  Content Type(s): Press, Announcements Research Topic(s): Retail payments supervision
• August 8, 2025

  About retail payments supervision mandate

  Know what we will and won’t do under our supervisory mandate.

• The Dynamic Canadian Debt Strategy Model

  Technical Report No. 127 Nicolas Audet, Joe Ning, Adam Epp, Jeffrey Gao

  We present a dynamic debt strategy model framework designed to assist sovereign debt portfolio managers in choosing an optimal debt issuance strategy. The main innovation of this framework is the introduction of dynamic issuance strategies, which allow issuance decisions to vary over time based on the model’s simulated state variables.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Technical reports Research Topic(s): Debt management, Econometric and statistical methods, Financial markets, Fiscal policy JEL Code(s): C, C6, C61, G, G1, G11, G17, H, H6, H63, H68
• August 6, 2025

  Bank of Canada publishes its 2026 schedule for policy interest rate announcements and other major publications

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today published its 2026 schedule for policy interest rate announcements and the release of the quarterly Monetary Policy Report.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• August 6, 2025

  Bank Note Confidence Survey

  The Bank of Canada supplies Canadians with bank notes they can use with confidence—notes that are readily accepted and secure against counterfeiting. To monitor and assess public confidence in the authenticity of bank notes, we survey a representative sample of 2,700 residents of Canada annually.
• August 5, 2025

  Public consultation highlights for the next $5 note

  Highlights and comprehensive reports related to the $5 bank NOTE-able consultation and design process.
• July 31, 2025

  Valet API: How-to guide

  Learn more about the Bank of Canada Valet API before getting started with finding available data, making API calls and accessing exchange rates.
• July 30, 2025

  Bank of Canada holds policy rate at 2¾%

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today maintained its target for the overnight rate at 2.75%, with the Bank Rate at 3% and the deposit rate at 2.70%.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• July 30, 2025

  Monetary Policy Report—July 2025

  

  Tariffs are significantly higher than they were at the start of 2025, and it is extremely difficult to predict how US trade policy will play out. Canadian economic activity has slowed but is showing signs of resilience. While inflation is close to 2%, underlying inflation has picked up.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Monetary Policy Report
• July 30, 2025

  Monetary Policy Report—July 2025—Canadian economy—Scenario assumptions

  With some new tariff agreements in place, the range of trade policy outcomes has narrowed. Nevertheless, the situation remains fluid and difficult to predict. Canada’s economic outlook therefore continues to be highly dependant on assumptions about how US trade policy could unfold.