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• 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

• U.S. Macroeconomic News and Low-Frequency Changes in Small Open Economies’ Bond Yields

  Staff Working Paper 2024-12 Bingxin Ann Xing, Bruno Feunou, Morvan Nongni-Donfack, Rodrigo Sekkel

  Using two complementary approaches, we investigate the importance of U.S. macroeconomic news in driving low-frequency fluctuations in the term structure of interest rates in Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom. We find that U.S. macroeconomic news is particularly important to explain changes in the expectation components of the nominal, real and break-even inflation rates of small open economies.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Central bank research, Econometric and statistical methods JEL Code(s): E, E4, E43, E44, E47, G, G1, G14

• Liquidity risks at Canadian life insurance companies

  Staff Analytical Note 2024-7 Patrick Aldridge, Stephane Gignac, Rishi Vala, Adrian Walton

  We examine how life insurers manage liquidity risks created by their business model. We find that Canadian life insurers did not face significant liquidity draws and continued their usual investment behaviour during the COVID-19 crisis and as interest rates increased in 2022.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff analytical notes Topic(s): Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Financial institutions, Financial markets, Financial stability, Market structure and pricing JEL Code(s): D, D4, D47, D5, D53, G, G1, G12, G14, G2, G23
• April 17, 2024

  Prescribed supervisory information

  This supervisory policy provides an explanation of the prescribed supervisory information provisions and sets out the Bank of Canada’s expectations for payments service providers’ compliance with non-disclosure requirements related to prescribed supervisory information under subsection 64(1) of the Retail Payment Activities Act and sections 37 to 38 of the Retail Payment Activities Regulations.

  Content Type(s): Retail payments supervision materials, Supervisory policies Topic(s): Supervision
• April 17, 2024

  Record keeping

  This supervisory policy outlines what records payment service providers should keep and retain to comply with their record-keeping obligations under the Retail Payment Activities Act and the Retail Payment Activities Regulations.

  Content Type(s): Retail payments supervision materials, Supervisory policies Topic(s): Supervision
• April 16, 2024

  Fireside Chat with Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada

  On Tuesday, April 16, 2024, Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada, will speak at the Wilson Center’s Washington Forum on the Canadian Economy on the sidelines of the IMF-WB spring meetings.

  Content Type(s): Press, Media advisories
• April 15, 2024

  CARR to begin publishing data on the transition of CDOR based loans to CORRA

  To facilitate the monitoring of the transition away from CDOR based loans to CORRA and Term CORRA, CARR will publish a monthly report on the aggregated outstanding amount of CDOR loans that have not transitioned to other benchmarks, as well as the volume of new loans, including any transitioned loans, referencing CORRA and/or Term CORRA.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices Source(s): Canadian Alternative Reference Rate Working Group

• Unintended Consequences of the Home Affordable Refinance Program

  Staff Working Paper 2024-11 Phoebe Tian, Chen Zheng

  We investigate the unintended consequences of the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP). Originally designed to help borrowers refinance after the 2008–09 global financial crisis, HARP inadvertently strengthened the market power of incumbent lenders by creating a cost advantage for them. Despite a 2013 policy rectifying this cost advantage, we still find significant welfare losses for borrowers.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, G5, G51, L, L5, L51
• April 10, 2024

  Bank of Canada Media Interview – The Globe and Mail

  Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada, gave an interview to Mark Rendell of The Globe and Mail.

  Content Type(s): Press, Media advisories
• April 10, 2024

  Bank of Canada Media Interview – Midi info

  Nicolas Vincent, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, gave an interview to Radio-Canada’s Alec Castonguay. The interview will air today on Midi info.

  Content Type(s): Press, Media advisories