Note by Canada

 SNA2008
• Financial Account
• Balance Sheet
• Flow-of Funds section in Chapter 27
 Securities’ databases
 IMF Monetary and Financial Statistics
• SRF
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Canadian Financial and Wealth Accounts
(FWA) Overview
 Financial Flow Accounts and National Balance Sheet
Accounts presented in considerable sub-sector and instrument detail (thirty sectors and twenty-five classes of financial instruments) → some TWFW detail
 Financial Flow Accounts are available within approximately 60 days of the end of the reference quarter whereas the National Balance Sheet Accounts are available within approximately 75 days
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Existing To Whom From Whom Detail
 Bonds
• Federal, Provincial, Local
• Other
Government Business Enterprises, Non-financial Corporations,
Financial Corporations, Issuers of Asset Backed Securities
 Savings Bonds are counterpart data
• Federal
• Provincial
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 Paper
• Federal
• Other (incl. ABS)
 Life Insurance and Pension Instruments
• Counterparty
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Available To Whom From Whom Detail
 Deposits
• Regulatory return with TWFW detail for chartered bank liabilities and near bank deposit liabilities has counterparty sectoral detail
 Loans
• Non-Mortgage Loan Return for chartered banks with
TWFW detail as counterparty sectoral detail
 Used in construction of matrix ... Investment req’d to articulate detail in FWA matrices
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Partially Available To Whom From Whom Detail
 Investment Fund Units
• Mostly household sector
 Corporate Equity
• HR 2012 will present more instrument detail
 Mortgage
• Classification by use rather than sector (regulatory ratios) ... Mostly household counterparty
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New Developments relative to TWFW
 STC securities databases (in BOPD) have high frequency micro-record detail on (i) total new issues, (ii) transactions in outstanding securities and purchases of new securities, as well as (iii) annual holdings of domestic-foreign securities (CPIS)
 Enhanced securities database
• Project to improve and integrate securities’ databases
• ... Along the lines of Securities Handbook (Vol’s1,2,3)
• 5-year project will strengthen TWFW detail used in the
FWA
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 International agency demand
• Stability of banking sector
 Domestic users
• Seemingly satisfied by significant sector detail
• Use of indicators
• Focus on sector transactions
• Net worth (non-financial assets)
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