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 ...

More than 600 of your nominees met the qualifying criteria to be featured on the next $5 bank note. From those, an ...

Our call for nominations has ended, and an independent Advisory Council has developed a short list of candidates for the next ...

We draw on the Canadian experience to examine how monetary and macroprudential policies interact and possibly complement each other in achieving their respective price and financial stability ...

Governor Tiff Macklem reflects on the lessons learned from the pandemic and its aftermath and outlines how the Bank is ...

The Bank of Canada is planning to restart later this year its securities lending program (SLP) which is designed to support the liquidity of Government of Canada (GoC) securities markets.

The new $5 note will enter circulation only after the issuance of the next $20 note in early 2027. In the meantime, our ...

According to the Bank of Canada’s Methods-of-Payment (MOP) surveys in recent years, more than 80% of retail consumer purchases in Canada occur at physical locations.1 This suggests that such ...

Governor Tiff Macklem discusses key issues involved in the Governing Council’s deliberations about the monetary policy ...

In his year-end remarks, Governor Tiff Macklem discusses what the Bank of Canada learned from the pandemic experience and ...

Over the years, the Bank of Canada has adjusted the way it sets its key interest rate. Following is a brief history of the key rate from the Bank’s founding in 1935 until the present. The original key ...

Learn about the economic impact of the COVID‑19 pandemic and the Bank’s actions to support the Canadian economy and financial system. The COVID‑19 pandemic represents a serious health threat to people ...