Indigenous businesses make a valuable contribution to Canada’s economy, but we still have much to learn about what makes them ...

Deputy Governor Rhys Mendes discusses how monetary policy worked to bring inflation back down to target and why the Bank ...

At the Bank of Canada, we assessed the life cycle of bank notes to confirm that polymer notes have a smaller environmental footprint than paper notes. Polymer notes have a longer life and then are ...

In his first public speech as a deputy governor, Rhys Mendes explains why higher interest rates were needed to get inflation ...

We’re taking steps to better understand the impacts of climate change on the economy and to reduce our environmental footprint.

Derivatives exchanges often determine collateral requirements, which are fundamental to market safety, with dated risk models assuming normal returns. However, derivatives returns are heavy-tailed, ...

Buying a home is probably the biggest purchase you’ll ever make. If you’re like most people, you won’t pay cash—you’ll borrow most of the money by taking out a mortgage. And over the life of the ...

We aim to build confidence in the safety and reliability of payment service providers’ services while protecting end users from specific risks. We’re taking steps to better understand the impacts of ...

We are all better off if the financial system can weather a storm or two. And every one of us plays a role in keeping it that way. We rely on our financial system whenever we take out a loan for a ...

House prices have grown rapidly in many parts of Canada in recent years. This has raised some concerns among policy-makers about financial stability and housing affordability. Yet, we know little ...

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) ...