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As a result, the Bank has expanded the list of assets it can purchase for its balance sheet. For example, the Bank introduced a regular term repo operation in 2015 and last year added federal ...
Find our Statements of Financial Position and Supplementary Information of Balance Sheet Loans and receivables. Effective January 1, 2011, the Bank of Canada adopted International Financial Reporting ...
The Bank of Canada ’s ballooning balance sheet has received lots of attention lately. From $120 billion in early March 2020 it grew over the next 12 months to $575 billion and it still stands at $414 ...
At its peak, this and other purchase programs increased the bank’s balance sheet by well over $400-billion. Not since the Second World War has the Bank of Canada expanded its holdings so much so ...
The term "levers" in balance sheet management encapsulates the multitude of strategic options at a bank's disposal in today's digital age. Think of them as a bank's tool set, each tool designed to ...
Lehman took balance sheet massaging a step further by making transactions that even the most eagle-eyed analyst could not have known about. Its Repo 105 transactions were classified as "sales ...
Central bank profits are usually distributed to the government – the Fed has handed more than a trillion dollars to the U.S. Treasury since 2000 – but losses are retained on the balance sheet.
This course is designed for central bank professionals, economists and policymakers involved in monetary policy implementation, risk management, or central bank operations. Participants should be ...
The Bank of Canada ’s ballooning balance sheet has received lots of attention lately. From $120 billion in early March 2020 it grew over the next 12 months to $575 billion and it still stands at $414 ...