Press Releases

• March 23, 2026

  Changes to Bank of Canada Governing Council

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada announced today the departure of Deputy Governor Rhys Mendes on April 10, and the retirement of Deputy Governor Sharon Kozicki on July 15.

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• March 18, 2026

  Bank of Canada maintains policy rate at 2¼%

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today held its target for the overnight rate at 2.25%, with the Bank Rate at 2.5% and the deposit rate at 2.20%.

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• March 5, 2026

  Bank of Canada, Export Development Canada, RBC and TD successfully complete bond issuance experiment using distributed ledger technology

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada (BoC), RBC Capital Markets, RBC Investor Services, TD Bank Group (TD), and Export Development Canada (EDC) successfully completed Project Samara, a collaborative initiative to evaluate how tokenization and distributed ledger technology (DLT) can improve bond issuance and settlement in a real-world setting.

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