Market Notices

• March 31, 2008

  Eligibility Criteria and Conditions for Accepting Asset-Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP) as Collateral for the Bank of Canada's Standing Liquidity Facility (SLF)

  On 5 March 2008, the Bank released for comment its proposed eligibility criteria for accepting ABCP and noted that two broad policy objectives guided the Bank's assessment. First, the eligibility criteria should mitigate any risks to the Bank that might be associated with accepting ABCP securities as collateral for the SLF.

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• March 20, 2008

  Operational Changes to the Bond Buyback Program

  As announced in the Debt Management Strategy 2008-2009, minor operational changes will be made to the bond buyback program to broaden the eligible basket of securities available for buyback operations. The changes are as follows:

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• March 20, 2008

  Results of the 20 March 2008 Term PRA Transaction

  The results of today's term PRA operations are as follows:

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• March 11, 2008

  Bank of Canada Announces New Term PRA Transactions as part of Co-ordinated G10 Central Bank Actions

  Since the co-ordinated actions taken in December 2007, the G10 central banks have continued to work together closely and to consult regularly on liquidity pressures in funding markets. Pressures in some of these markets have recently increased again.

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