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 ...

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Results from the Business Outlook Survey and the Business Leaders’ Pulse show that inflationary pressures continue to ease.

Consumers’ perceptions of current inflation and their expectations for inflation over the next year have declined this ...

Today, the Bankers’ Acceptance Transition Virtual Network (BATVN), established by the Canadian Fixed-Income Forum (CFIF) to ...

Monetary policy is working to reduce price pressures in the Canadian economy. Core inflation is expected to ease gradually, ...

Do you ever wonder why some things are way more expensive than they were when you were a kid? It’s a sign of something important in our economy—inflation. Inflation is a measure of how much prices for ...

A financial market infrastructure (FMI) is a system that facilitates the clearing, settling or recording of payments, securities, derivatives or other financial transactions among participating ...

As the central bank and sole issuer of bank notes in Canada, the Bank of Canada needs to stay on top of payment trends. Every four years, we reach out to Canadians to ask them how they pay for things.

Trade is dominating the news these days. With the barrage of headlines and the talk about protectionism and tariffs, it’s easy to forget that much of our economic growth and prosperity comes from ...

Keeping inflation stable and predictable is a key part of the Bank of Canada’s work to support the Canadian economy. The main way the Bank does this is through changes to its policy interest rate.

For most of 2021 and into early 2022, variable mortgage rates were substantially lower than fixed mortgage rates. As a result, many borrowers opted for a variable-rate mortgage. These types of ...