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Payments Canada is a corporation that: operates and maintains Canadian national systems for the clearing and settlement of payments and other arrangements for the making or exchange of payments; facilitates the interaction of Payments Canada's systems with others involved in the exchange, clearing and settlement of payments; and
July 1987 – to ensure a coordinated approach to supervision and a modern regulatory framework for Canada's financial system, and acting on the recommendations of the Estey commission, the government proclaimed the Financial Institutions and Deposit Insurance Amendment Act and the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Act.
The Bank of Canada (BoC; French: Banque du Canada) is a Crown corporation and Canada's central bank. [4] Chartered in 1934 under the Bank of Canada Act , it is responsible for formulating Canada's monetary policy, [ 5 ] and for the promotion of a safe and sound financial system within Canada. [ 6 ]
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) [1] is a committee of banking supervisory authorities that was established by the central bank governors of the Group of Ten (G10) countries in 1974. [2] The committee expanded its membership in 2009 and then again in 2014.
European Central Bank through European Banking Supervision ; Bank of Portugal ; Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM) and Autoridade de Supervisão de Seguros e Fundos de Pensões (ASF) Qatar: Qatar Central Bank ; Qatar Financial Markets Authority (QFMA) Romania: National Bank of Romania ; Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF) Russia
Bank licensing, which sets certain requirements for starting a new bank, is closely connected with supervision and usually performed by the same public authority. Licensing provides the licence holders the right to own and to operate a bank. The licensing process is specific to the regulatory environment of the jurisdiction where the bank is ...
The Large Value Transfer System, or LVTS, was the primary system in Canada for electronic wire transfers of large sums of money, and was operated by Payments Canada.It permitted the participating institutions and their clients to send large sums of money securely in real-time with complete certainty that the payment will settle.
In 2007, the Government of Canada provided FCAC with an additional $3 million for the creation of the Financial Literacy Initiative. In 2009, new federal legislation gave FCAC oversight over payment card network operators. On July 11, 2010, amendments to the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada Act further expanded FCAC’s role in four areas: