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. Source
- How often
- Each fiscal quarter. Source
- Deadline
- Within 30 days. Subject to the Late and Erroneous Filing Penalties (LEFP) framework. 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
- Group
- Deposit-taking institutions: credit risk models
Templates (3)
The tables and forms inside the return. Plain name first, the OSFI's code in brackets.
- Retail Schedule 1 (Retail Schedule 1)
- Wholesale Schedule 2 (Wholesale Schedule 2)
- CREF Schedule 3 (CREF Schedule 3)
Visible worksheets in BH.xls, excluding cover, instruction and list sheets. Source
Validation rules
549 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 IsValidAggregate(MakeStringArray('OUT', ','), 'IND_GROUP', '0001', MakeStringArray('0010,0...).
How they were counted
Counted 549 rows with a rule in the 'Validation rules' sheet of bh-validation-en.xlsx (547 error, 2 warning).
Counts are in the OSFI's own unit, so they are not comparable with other regulators' counts.
Public data
No published data from this return was found. No publication of data from this return was found on OSFI's reporting or open data pages. 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.
- Reporting Requirements for Deposit-Taking Institutions
List of returns · HTML · December 2025
- Standardized Institutions Credit Monitoring Data Call (BH)
Instructions · HTML · August 2017
- BH - Sample return
Template · XLS · 2.3 MB · 17 January 2024
SHA-256
002f130d7adeshow in full002f130d7ade5a18b74cabc7bfd5920f173b4d69c25194184298084aa6f08fe8 - BH - Data definitions
Data dictionary · XLS · 3.6 MB · 17 January 2024
SHA-256
66883cd78464show in full66883cd78464d8da0d8745e8fb9419f7673faaf269b24888ece4f81e233ee13e - BH - Validation rules
Validation rules · XLSX · 104.5 KB · 7 May 2025
SHA-256
3e1572e5458dshow in full3e1572e5458de7c976edd6eae15515c8297023c9dc843faa7e1f471f6506ea9d - Manage Financial Returns User Guide for Deposit Taking Institutions
Filing rules · PDF · 2.4 MB · 17 January 2024
SHA-256
48554684842bshow in full48554684842b8cb60671416e583e88cfe976786db2277230f92e052ffa6f4996
Sources
Every page and document this return's facts were read from.
- osfi-bsif.gc.ca/sites/default/files/import-media/data_and_forms/sample-return/2023-03/en/BH.xls
- osfi-bsif.gc.ca/en/data-forms/reporting-returns/filing-financial-returns/reporting-requirements-deposit-taking-institutions
- osfi-bsif.gc.ca/en/data-forms/reporting-returns/filing-financial-returns/financial-reporting-instructions/standardized-institutions-credit-monitoring-data-call-bh
- osfi-bsif.gc.ca/en/about-osfi/progress-our-initiatives/modernizing-we-collect-data-institutions
- osfi-bsif.gc.ca/sites/default/files/import-media/data_and_forms/data-definitions/2023-08/en/scmd_dd.xls
- osfi-bsif.gc.ca/sites/default/files/documents/bh-validation-en.xlsx
- osfi-bsif.gc.ca/sites/default/files/2023-07/rrs_mcr_dti.pdf
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Last checked 11 November 2026.
