A buoy on funding tides: How client repo demand and dealer constraints lifted CORRA

Jean-Sébastien Fontaine, Neil Maru and Sofia Tchamova

No 2026-15, Staff Analytical Papers from Bank of Canada

Abstract: The CORRA benchmark interest rate experienced sustained pressures in Canada around the Fall of 2025. The growing imbalance between repo lenders and borrowers meant that funding markets increasingly relied on Canadian banks’ balance sheets to absorb this funding gap. The Bank of Canada’s adjustments to its term repo operations, together with an eventual reduction in the imbalance between lenders and borrowers, both contributed to relieve pressures. The episode highlights that pressures on the CORRA benchmark can emerge from the interaction of client borrowing behavior and dealer balance sheet constraints, even if the level of settlement balances is in a range deemed sufficient to meet the requirement of the payment system and the precautionary demand of its members.

Keywords: Financial markets and funds management; Market functioning; Monetary policy; Monetary policy tools and implementation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E52 G23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-05
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