Chartered banks: Total foreign currency assets and liabilities (formerly C9)

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Month-end, Millions of dollarsCANSIM2025‑012025‑022025‑032025‑042025‑05
Assets
Call loansV371583,1892,9672,7882,9763,041
Other loansV371592,122,7602,265,2622,305,1672,083,3852,228,771
SecuritiesV371601,473,2271,533,5951,523,0391,430,1291,463,036
Deposits with banksV37161374,991396,788436,084381,566414,674
Other assetsV371622,006,8521,939,1551,677,601154,77063,799
TotalV371575,981,0206,137,7665,944,6794,052,8264,173,322
Liabilities
Deposits
Demand and noticeV530066761,369,0811,357,6531,375,7091,325,8021,331,336
Fixed termV371711,911,4031,993,5632,035,1761,870,0341,919,093
TotalV371683,280,4843,351,2163,410,8853,195,8363,250,429
Of which: Deposits of banksV37164190,869211,115211,844184,862211,022
Of which: Other depositsV371653,089,6153,140,1013,199,0413,010,9743,039,407
Other liabilitiesV371662,722,7232,806,0632,567,018901,302968,586
TotalV371636,003,2076,157,2795,977,9024,097,1384,219,015
Net foreign assetsV37167-22,187-19,512-33,223-44,312-45,693

Notes

Source: Bank of Canada, Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI)

Federally-regulated credit unions and subsidiaries of non-bank financial institutions are excluded from the universe of chartered banks for the purposes of the Banking and Financial Statistics (BFS) tables. This treatment is consistent with the methodology used by Statistics Canada in their key economic and financial statistical programs (e.g., National Balance Sheet Accounts), which follows the NAICS framework.

Data cover total foreign currency assets and liabilities of the chartered banks, whether booked in Canada or abroad. The figures include all gold transactions. Published data are available from January 1954.

Users are referred to the notes to the tables in the December 1982 issue of the Review and in earlier issues for a description of the impact on the data of the 1967 Bank Act revisions.

Assets do not include bank premises abroad. Call loans include day, call, and short loans to investment dealers and stockbrokers in foreign currencies. Other assets include gold coin and bullion, foreign notes and coin, and foreign currency items in transit (float). The last item is frequently a net liability.