April 13, 2023 Fireside Chat with Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada On Thursday, April 13, 2023, Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada, will speak as part of the Governor Talks series at the IMF Spring Meetings. Content Type(s): Press, Media advisories
April 1, 2024 The Bank of Canada releases the first quarter issues of the Business Outlook Survey and the Canadian Survey of Consumer Expectations On Monday, April 1, 2024, the Bank of Canada will release the first quarter issue of the Business Outlook Survey and the Canadian Survey of Consumer Expectations. Content Type(s): Press, Media advisories
March 25, 2024 CARR Meeting (March 25, 2024) Content Type(s): Meetings Source(s): Canadian Alternative Reference Rate Working Group
May 25, 2023 CFIF welcomes the launch of the new Canadian Collateral Management Service TMX Group Limited and Clearstream Banking S.A. announced plans to launch a Canadian Collateral Management Service (CCMS) later this year. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices Source(s): Canadian Fixed-Income Forum
October 2, 2024 Case scenarios about providers of services backed by cryptocurrencies These fictional case scenarios provide more details about the following payment functions performed in relation to cryptocurrencies: provision or maintenance of an account; holding of funds on behalf of an end user; initiation of an electronic funds transfer at the request of an end user; authorization of an electronic funds transfer or the transmission, reception or facilitation of an instruction in relation to an electronic funds transfer. Content Type(s): Retail payments supervision materials, Case scenarios Topic(s): Registration
June 17, 2024 Roles and Responsibilities of the Executive Director and Managing Director This supervisory policy outlines the roles of the Executive Director of Payments, Supervision and Oversight and the Managing Director of Supervision. It also describes their responsibilities related to the Bank of Canada’s retail payments supervision mandate. Content Type(s): Retail payments supervision materials, Supervisory policies Topic(s): Enforcement, Registration, Supervision
December 12, 2023 Case scenarios about merchant or group of merchants instrument exclusion The following fictional case scenarios illustrate the types of activities exempted under paragraph 6(a) of the Retail Payment Activities Act. Content Type(s): Retail payments supervision materials, Case scenarios Topic(s): Registration
August 21, 2024 Case scenarios about e-commerce web building tools and payment gateways The following fictional case scenarios provide examples of payment functions, namely the initiation of an electronic funds transfer (EFT) at the request of an end user, and the authorization of an EFT or the transmission, reception or facilitation of an instruction in relation to the EFT. They also provide examples of incidental activities under the Retail Payment Activities Act. Content Type(s): Retail payments supervision materials, Case scenarios Topic(s): Registration
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