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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

We investigate the macroeconomic impacts of mothballed businesses—those that closed temporarily—on sectoral equilibrium prices after a negative demand shock. Our results suggest that pandemic fiscal ...

Good morning. I’m pleased to be here with Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers to discuss our policy decision. Today, we lowered the policy interest rates by 50 basis points. This is our fifth ...

The Bank of Canada today reduced its target for the overnight rate to 3¼%, with the Bank Rate at 3½% and the deposit rate at 3¼%. The Bank is continuing its policy of balance sheet normalization. The ...