May 24, 2022 An Overview of Lynx, Canada’s High-Value Payment System This document provides an overview of Lynx—Canada’s high-value payment system—and summarizes the system’s design. It explains the development and purpose of Lynx as well as the legal and regulatory framework governing its operation. It also describes the various settlement mechanisms and processes Lynx uses to allow system participants to meet their diverse payment needs while ensuring that risks that arise in the system are managed appropriately. Content Type(s): Background materials Topic(s): Payment clearing and settlement systems
Financial Intermediaries and the Macroeconomy: Evidence from a High-Frequency Identification Staff Working Paper 2022-24 Pablo Ottonello, Wenting Song We provide empirical evidence of effects to the aggregate economy from surprises about financial intermediaries’ net worth based on a high-frequency identification strategy. We estimate that news of a 1% decline in intermediaries’ net worth leads to a 0.2%–0.4% decrease in the market value of nonfinancial firms. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Asset pricing, Business fluctuations and cycles, Credit and credit aggregates, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Financial system regulation and policies, Monetary and financial indicators JEL Code(s): E, E3, E32, E4, E44, E5, E51, G, G0, G01, G1, G12, G2, G21, G23, G24, G3, G32
May 17, 2022 CFIF Meeting (May 17, 2022) Content Type(s): Meetings Source(s): Canadian Fixed-Income Forum
May 16, 2022 CARR welcomes RBSL’s decision to cease the publication of CDOR after June 28, 2024 Today, Refinitiv Benchmark Services (UK) Limited (RBSL), CDOR’s regulated administrator, announced the cessation of the publication of CDOR after June 28, 2024. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices Source(s): Canadian Alternative Reference Rate Working Group
Transmission of Cyber Risk Through the Canadian Wholesale Payment System Staff Working Paper 2022-23 Anneke Kosse, Zhentong Lu This paper studies how the impact of a cyber attack that paralyzes one or multiple banks' ability to send payments would transmit to other banks through the Canadian wholesale payment system. Based on historical payment data, we simulate a wide range of scenarios and evaluate the total payment disruption in the system. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial stability, Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): C, C4, C49, E, E4, E42, E47, G, G2, G21