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In forceDeposit-taking institutions: Bank of Canada statisticsLast checked 11 November 2026

New and existing lending (A4)

A regulatory return listed by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), Canada.

Interest rates charged and funds advanced on new Canadian-dollar loans booked in Canada to households and businesses, plus rates and balances on existing loans and detail on variable-rate lending. It supports analysis of the cost of borrowing after monetary policy changes, the debt service ratio and financial stability. Source

Official title: Report on New Lending (A4)

The facts

Who files
OSFI's reporting requirements table lists it for: banks; trust and loan companies; foreign bank branches. Not required from: banks or trust and loan companies that are subsidiaries of banks or of federally incorporated trust and loan companies. The table names the Bank of Canada as the contact agency. Source
How often
Monthly. Source
Deadline
Within 30 days. Not subject to the Late and Erroneous Filing Penalties (LEFP) framework. The instructions say: "The return is to be completed monthly and submitted within 30 days of the last day of each month to the Head Office of the Bank of Canada." Source
Format
Excel. Filed through the Regulatory Reporting System (RRS). OSFI publishes the return as an Excel sample. Source
How it is filed
Filing routes recorded for the OSFI: Regulatory Reporting System (RRS); Regulatory Data Hub (RDH). See how firms file with the OSFI.
Status
In forceFiled in the Regulatory Reporting System (RRS). OSFI's Data Collection Modernization initiative will replace RRS with a new platform, the Regulatory Data Hub (RDH); OSFI says the launch is now targeted for spring 2027 and asks filers to keep using RRS until then. Financial filing for banks and trust and loan companies moves to RDH in Release 2; OSFI says more details on financial returns will come in 2027. Source
Legal basis
Group
Deposit-taking institutions: Bank of Canada statistics

Templates (1)

The tables and forms inside the return. Plain name first, the OSFI's code in brackets.

  • Report on New and Existing Lending (A4)

OSFI publishes this return as a single form (A4_2019.xlsx). Source

Validation rules

2,645 rules, as counted from the OSFI's published material. Software can run them exactly as published. Source

How they are written: Excel workbook, one row per rule (Rule ID, Rule Type, Description and a Formula or Expression column in OSFI's RRS rule syntax, for example If(((Month([ReportingEndDate]) = 3 or Month([ReportingEndDate]) = 6 or Month([ReportingEnd...).

The rules, on osfi-bsif.gc.ca

How they were counted

Counted 2645 rows with a rule in the 'Validation rules' sheet of a4-validation-en.xls (2611 error, 34 warning).

Counts are in the OSFI's own unit, so they are not comparable with other regulators' counts.

Public data

Published only added up across firms. The instructions say statistical aggregates on a total-for-all-institutions basis may be published by the Bank of Canada (for example in the Banking and Financial Statistics tables and the Financial System Review) and/or in Statistics Canada's socioeconomic database. Source

Official documents (6)

The OSFI's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 11 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

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Last checked 11 November 2026.