The Bank of Canada Releases the December Issue of the Financial System Review

OTTAWA , Dec. 7 /CNW Telbec/ - The December issue of the Financial System Review will be released on Thursday, 10 December 2009 , at 10:30 (ET).

This issue features the following articles:

    
    -   The Macroprudential Approach to Financial Regulation and Surveillance
    -   Liquidity Standards in a Macroprudential Context
    -   Improving the Resilience of Core Funding Markets
    -   Reform of Securitization
    -   Towards a Stress-Testing Model Consistent with the Macroprudential
        Approach

    Lock-up:        At 09:00 (Eastern Time), copies of the Financial System
                    Review will be made available to journalists, under
                    embargo at the Bank's head office in Ottawa. The embargo
                    will be lifted at 10:30 (Eastern Time). (Please use the
                    East Tower entrance at 245 Sparks Street and have your
                    press card with you.)

                    For security reasons, those wishing to attend the lock-up
                    must confirm by calling Stephanie Bento at 613 782-7183
                    before noon on Wednesday, 9 December.

    Distribution:   The Financial System Review will be available at 10:30
                    (Eastern Time) on the Bank's website.
                    (http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/fsr/index.html).

    Note:           There will be no briefing session.
    

For further information: Jeremy Harrison at [phone] or [email protected]