The bottom line is that the mortgage market is a careful balance between a variety of policy objectives and a range of ...

The Market Participants Survey results are based on questionnaire responses from about 30 financial market participants.

The Bank of Canada is the nation’s central bank. We are not a commercial bank and do not offer banking services to the public ...

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

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.

How often does the cashier just hand over the debit machine when you pay for your morning coffee? Some even seem surprised if you give them cash. Last year in Canada, people used cash for only 1 in 3 ...

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

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 ...

This paper introduces a subjective measure of cash accessibility in Canada, complementing existing distance-based metrics developed by Chen, O’Habib and Xiao (2023). Analyzing data from the 2023 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...