Posts

• April 9, 2026

  Contingent Term Repo Facility: Terms and conditions

  Read the terms and conditions of the Contingent Term Repo Facility.
• April 9, 2026

  Contingent Term Repo Facility

  The Contingent Term Repo Facility (CTRF) is the Bank of Canada’s repurchase agreement (repo) facility designed to counter severe market-wide liquidity stresses and to support the stability of the Canadian financial system.
• April 9, 2026

  Framework for market operations and liquidity provision

  Learn about the Bank’s policies for financial market operations and tools for providing liquidity to the financial system. This includes routine and emergency liquidity tools provided as part of the Bank’s role as lender of last resort.
• April 8, 2026

  Spring 2026 Debt Management Strategy Consultations

  The Department of Finance and the Bank of Canada are seeking the views of government securities distributors, institutional investors, and other interested parties on the Government of Canada’s domestic debt program and relevant market developments.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• April 8, 2026

  Bank of Canada announces 2025‑26 scholarship recipients 

  The Bank of Canada is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of its scholarship awards for the Master Scholarship Award for Women in Economics and Finance.

  Content Type(s): Press, Announcements Source(s): Scholarship awards

• Measuring how financial sector economists respond to the tone of Bank of Canada communications

  

  Sparks at Bank article Amanda Wang, Xu Zhang, Xinfen Han

  The words central banks use to explain policy decisions matter. They can, in some cases, affect financial markets just like changes in policy interest rates do. For this reason, we built a tool to track the tone of the Bank of Canada’s policy communications and assess how tone affects market perceptions.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Sparks at Bank article Research Theme(s): Models and tools, Econometric, statistical and computational methods, Monetary policy, Monetary policy framework and transmission, Monetary policy tools and implementation
• April 3, 2026

  Good Friday

  National holiday

  Content Type(s): Upcoming events

• DeFi Lending: Returns, Leverage, and Liquidation Risk

  Staff analytical paper 2026-13 Jonathan Chiu, Furkan Danisman

  DeFi lending with proper governance is operationally viable, but it also faces constraints related to capital efficiency, liquidation risk, and systemic fragility within the crypto ecosystem.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff analytical paper JEL Code(s): E, E5, E50, E58 Research Theme(s): Money and payments, Digital assets and fintech, Payment and financial market infrastructures
• April 1, 2026

  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
• April 1, 2026

  Release of the Bank of Canada’s summary of deliberations  

  On Wednesday, April 1, 2026, the Bank of Canada will publish a summary of the deliberations that took place ahead of its interest rate decision on March 18, 2026.

  Content Type(s): Press, Media advisories