October 27, 2015 Inflation Targeting—A Matter of Time Remarks Timothy Lane CFA Society Atlantic Canada Halifax, Nova Scotia Deputy Governor Tim Lane discusses monetary policy decision making and how the Bank assesses the underlying trend in inflation. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
February 25, 2013 Rebuilding Trust in Global Banking Remarks Mark Carney 7th Annual Thomas d’Aquino Lecture on Leadership - Lawrence National Centre for Policy and Management - Richard Ivey School of Business - Western University London, Ontario Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney discusses the breakdown in trust in global banking and what is required to rebuild it. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
December 20, 2006 Why Monetary Policy Matters: A Canadian Perspective Bank of Canada Review - Winter 2006-2007 Christopher Ragan This article provides answers to several key questions about Canadian monetary policy. First, what is monetary policy? Second, why does the Bank of Canada focus on the control of inflation rather than other macroeconomic variables? Third, how do the Bank's actions influence the rate of inflation? And, finally, how can monetary policy deliver genuine and significant benefits to society? Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review articles
March 5, 2026 Bank of Canada, Export Development Canada, RBC and TD successfully complete bond issuance experiment using distributed ledger technology Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada (BoC), RBC Capital Markets, RBC Investor Services, TD Bank Group (TD), and Export Development Canada (EDC) successfully completed Project Samara, a collaborative initiative to evaluate how tokenization and distributed ledger technology (DLT) can improve bond issuance and settlement in a real-world setting. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
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Decomposing Canada’s Market Shares: An Update Staff analytical note 2018-26 Nicholas Labelle Building on the shift-share analysis of Barnett and Charbonneau (2015), this note decomposes Canada’s market shares in the United States, Europe and China for imports of non-energy goods into competitiveness, preference shifts and an interaction term. We find that, despite the depreciation of the dollar, Canada continued to lose market share over 2014–17 (around 0.4 percentage points lost per year on average over four years). Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff analytical notes JEL Code(s): F, F1, F10, F14, F4 Research Theme(s): Monetary policy, Real economy and forecasting, Structural challenges, International trade, finance and competitiveness
September 5, 2003 Spruce Meadows Roundtable Remarks David Dodge Spruce Meadows Roundtable Spruce Meadows, Alberta Canada's reliance on foreign trade has required us to be active internationalists for decades. Louis Rasminsky, who went on to become Governor of the Bank of Canada, was one of Canada's delegates at the Bretton Woods Conference that led to the creation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Rasminsky played an important role, formal and informal, at the talks. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
May 25, 2017 Project Jasper: Are Distributed Wholesale Payment Systems Feasible Yet? Financial System Review - June 2017 James Chapman, Rodney J. Garratt, Scott Hendry, Andrew McCormack, Wade McMahon This report describes a joint endeavour between public and private sectors to explore a wholesale payment system based on distributed ledger technology (DLT). They find that a stand-alone DLT system is unlikely to be as beneficial as a centralized payment system in terms of core operating costs; however, it could increase financial system efficiency as a result of integration with the broader financial market infrastructure. Content Type(s): Publications, Financial System Review articles JEL Code(s): E, E4, E42, E5, E58, G, G2, G28
October 29, 2014 Opening Statement before the Senate Standing Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce Opening statement Stephen S. Poloz Senate Standing Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce Ottawa, Ontario Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and committee members. I am pleased to introduce you to Carolyn Wilkins, who assumed the post of Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada on 2 May of this year. Before we take your questions, let me give you some of the highlights of the economic outlook. I’ll draw mainly […] Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
February 1, 2012 Developments and Issues in the Canadian Market for Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Financial System Review - June 2003 Paula Toovey, John Kiff Content Type(s): Publications, Financial System Review articles