October 3, 2008 Bank of Canada Announces Term PRA Transactions Since 19 September 2008, the Bank of Canada has extended $8 billion in three operations to provide liquidity to Canadian term lending markets. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
October 1, 2008 Results of the 1 October 2008 Term PRA Transaction Results of today's term PRA operations. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
September 24, 2008 Results of the 24 September 2008 Term PRA Transaction Results of today's term PRA operations. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
September 19, 2008 Results of the 19 September 2008 Term PRA Transaction Results of today's term PRA operations. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
June 12, 2008 Results of the 12 June 2008 Term PRA Transaction Results of today's term PRA operations. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
June 10, 2008 Bank of Canada Announces Term PRA Transaction As part of its provision of liquidity in support of the efficient functioning of financial markets, the Bank of Canada announced today that it will enter into a 28-day term purchase and resale agreement (PRA) as follows: Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
April 15, 2008 Bank of Canada to Sell Treasury Bills for Balance Sheet Management Purposes The Bank of Canada announced today it will sell $2 billion of its holdings of treasury bills. This transaction will offset the temporary increase in assets associated with the term purchase and resale transactions announced today. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
January 20, 2009 Bank of Canada Announces Details of its Future Term PRA Transactions Since 19 September 2008, the Bank of Canada has conducted eighteen Purchase and Resale Agreement (PRA) operations to provide liquidity to Canadian term lending markets and as at 22 January, there will be $33 billion in term PRA outstanding. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
January 20, 2009 Results of the 20 January 2009 Term PRA Transaction Results of today's term PRA operations. Content Type(s): Press, 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. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices