Clyde Goodlet - Latest

• May 16, 2001

  Core Principles for Systemically Important Payments Systems and Their Application in Canada

  Bank of Canada Review - Spring 2001 Clyde Goodlet

  Systemically important payments systems are systems that, because of the size or the nature of the payments they process, could trigger or transmit serious shocks across domestic or international financial systems if they were insufficiently protected against risk. This article describes the overall framework of core principles developed for the design, operation, and oversight of such payments systems. The article reviews the role of the task force established to develop the core principles and examines the core principles themselves. It also examines the role of central banks in overseeing major payments systems and in applying the core principles to them. The focus is on the Bank of Canada's oversight responsibilities under the Payment Clearing and Settlement Act and on Canada's systemically important payments system—the LVTS.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review articles Topic(s): Payment clearing and settlement systems
• August 11, 1999

  Preparations by the Canadian Financial Sector for the Year 2000

  Bank of Canada Review - Summer 1999 Clyde Goodlet

  This article outlines the extensive work undertaken by the various participants in Canada's financial sector to ensure "business as usual" heading into January 2000 and beyond. The article looks at preparations in the Bank of Canada's own mission-critical systems and at those of the country's major clearing and settlement systems for which the Bank has oversight responsibility. It also looks at the steps taken by the financial institutions themselves. Contingency planning that takes account of specific year-2000 concerns is also reviewed.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review articles Topic(s): Financial institutions
• November 12, 1997

  Clearing and settlement systems and the Bank of Canada

  Bank of Canada Review - Autumn 1997 Clyde Goodlet

  Clearing and settlement systems are essential to the smooth functioning of a modern market-based economy such as Canada's. During the past decade, there have been significant efforts in Canada and abroad to improve electronic clearing and settlement systems that handle payments obligations, either uniquely or in conjunction with transactions related to the purchase and sale of a broad range of financial instruments such as debt, equity, foreign exchange, or derivatives. This article examines some of the risks faced by participants and end-users of these systems and reviews the Bank of Canada's role in relation to these systems. For a number of years, the Bank has been involved informally with major clearing and settlement systems with a view to ensuring that systemic risk is adequately controlled. In July 1996, the Payment Clearing and Settlement Act was proclaimed. This Act formalized the role of the Bank in the oversight of clearing and settlement systems for the purpose of controlling systemic risk. The article provides an overview of the Bank's responsibilities. It also describes certain new powers that the Act made available to the Bank that could be exercised in its dealings with clearing and settlement systems.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review articles Topic(s): Payment clearing and settlement systems