July 24, 2024 Monetary Policy Report – July 2024 – Risks The Bank sees two broad types of upside risks to the inflation outlook and two main downside risks, though the base-case scenario is considered the mostly likely outcome.
February 26, 2025 Operational risk and incident response: At a glance This supplementary material is intended to provide an overview of the Operational risk and incident response guideline and summarizes a payment service provider’s (PSP) requirements for operational risk and incident response. It also includes scope considerations and a list of questions to help PSPs assess and achieve these requirements. Content Type(s): Retail payments materials, Supplementary materials Subject(s): Retail payments, Operational risk and incident response, Supervision
June 14, 2012 An Improved Framework for Assessing the Risks Arising from Elevated Household Debt Financial System Review - June 2012 Umar Faruqui, Xuezhi Liu, Tom Roberts Content Type(s): Publications, Financial System Review articles
October 23, 2024 Monetary Policy Report—October 2024 Monetary policy has worked to reduce price pressures in the Canadian economy. Inflation is now around 2% and is expected to remain near the middle of the Bank of Canada’s control range of 1% to 3% over the projection. Content Type(s): Publications, Monetary Policy Report
June 23, 2004 Bank of Canada Workshop on Regulation, Transparency, and the Quality of Fixed-Income Markets Financial System Review - June 2004 Lorie Zorn Content Type(s): Publications, Financial System Review articles
January 22, 2009 Release of the Monetary Policy Report Update Opening statement Mark Carney Ottawa, Ontario The outlook for the global economy has deteriorated since the October Monetary Policy Report, with the intensifying financial crisis spilling over into real economic activity. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
Reaching for yield or resiliency? Explaining the shift in Canadian pension plan portfolios Staff analytical note 2021-20 Sébastien Betermier, Nicholas Byrne, Jean-Sébastien Fontaine, Hayden Ford, Jason Ho, Chelsea Mitchell “Reach for yield”—This is the commonly heard explanation for why pension plans shift their portfolios toward alternative assets. But we show that the new portfolios also hold more bonds, offer lower average returns and produce smaller and less volatile solvency deficits. These shifts are part of a broader strategy to reduce solvency risk. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff analytical notes JEL Code(s): G, G1, G11 Research Theme(s): Financial markets and funds management, Market functioning, Financial system, Financial institutions and intermediation, Financial stability and systemic risk
July 20, 2010 Bank of Canada increases overnight rate target to 3/4 per cent Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada today announced that it is raising its target for the overnight rate by one-quarter of one percentage point to 3/4 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 1 per cent and the deposit rate is 1/2 per cent. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
September 10, 2003 Fostering Confidence Remarks David Dodge Vancouver Board of Trade Vancouver, British Columbia It's great to be back in Vancouver and to renew acquaintances at the Board of Trade. I'm going to spend some time today discussing the Bank of Canada's outlook for the Canadian economy and inflation, and how we are responding. But in order to understand the current economic situation, we need to look at some of the extraordinary events of the past year or so and how those events have affected the economy. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks