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• April 30, 2024

  Bank of Canada Media Interview – Radio-Canada

  Nicolas Vincent, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, gave an interview to Radio-Canada première’s Même fréquence.

  Content Type(s): Press, Media advisories
• April 29, 2024

  CARR Meeting (April 29, 2024)

  Content Type(s): Meetings Source(s): Canadian Alternative Reference Rate Working Group

• The Neutral Interest Rate: Past, Present and Future

  Staff Discussion Paper 2024-3 Matteo Cacciatore, Bruno Feunou, Galip Kemal Ozhan

  The decline in safe real interest rates over the past three decades has reignited discussions on the neutral real interest rate, known as R*. We address the determinants and estimation methods of R*, as well as the factors influencing its decline and its future trajectory.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Interest rates, Monetary policy, Monetary policy framework JEL Code(s): E, E4, E43, E5, E52, E6, E62
• April 25, 2024

  CFIF announces the establishment of the Collateral Infrastructure and Market Practices Advisory Group

  The Canadian Fixed-Income Forum today announced the establishment of the Collateral Infrastructure and Market Practices Advisory Group.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices Source(s): Collateral Infrastructure and Market Practices Advisory Group
• April 25, 2024

  Bank of Canada plans to re-introduce its securities lending program

  The Bank of Canada is planning to restart later this year its securities lending program (SLP) which is designed to support the liquidity of Government of Canada (GoC) securities markets.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices Source(s): Securities Lending Program, Securities Repo Operations
• April 24, 2024

  Summary of Governing Council deliberations: Fixed announcement date of April 10, 2024

  This is an account of the deliberations of the Bank of Canada’s Governing Council leading to the monetary policy decision on April 10, 2024.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Summary of deliberations
• April 24, 2024

  Release of the Bank of Canada’s summary of deliberations

  On Wednesday, April 24, 2024, the Bank of Canada will publish a summary of the deliberations that took place ahead of its interest rate decision on April 10, 2024.

  Content Type(s): Press, Media advisories
• April 22, 2024

  Market Participants Survey—First Quarter of 2024

  The Market Participants Survey results are based on questionnaire responses from about 30 financial market participants.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Market Participants Survey
• April 19, 2024

  Media roundtable with Governor Macklem

  As is customary, Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada, will today hold a virtual roundtable with journalists from the sidelines of the IMF-World Bank Spring meetings in Washington, DC. 

  Content Type(s): Press, Media advisories
• April 17, 2024

  Introduction of one-month treasury bill

  In line with the announcement in the federal 2024 Budget, the Government of Canada will be introducing a temporary one-month treasury bill.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices