Posts

• August 22, 2025

  Update: Senior Loan Officer Survey

  10:30 (ET)
  The Senior Loan Officer Survey collects information on the business-lending practices of Canadian financial institutions. 

  Content Type(s): Upcoming events
• August 13, 2025

  Publication: Summary of Deliberations

  13:30 (ET)
  A summary of monetary policy deliberations by the Governing Council for the policy decision that was announced two weeks earlier.

  Content Type(s): Upcoming events
• August 11, 2025

  Release: Market Participants Survey

  10:30 (ET)
  The Market Participants Survey is conducted quarterly. Bank of Canada staff reach out to a diverse set of participants in financial markets to gather their views on key macroeconomic and financial variables as well as on monetary policy.

  Content Type(s): Upcoming events
• 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

• 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
• 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

  Bank of Canada interest rate announcement  and release of the Monetary Policy Report 

  On Wednesday, July 30, 2025, the Bank of Canada will announce its decision on the target for the overnight rate. A press release will provide a brief explanation of the decision. The Bank will also publish its quarterly Monetary Policy Report (MPR) at the same time as the rate decision. 

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

  Monetary Policy Report Press Conference Opening Statement

  Opening statement Tiff Macklem Ottawa, Ontario

  Governor Tiff Macklem discusses the Monetary Policy Report and the key issues involved in the Governing Council’s deliberations about the monetary policy decision.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements