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

GIC offer sheets (GA-GB)

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

Reports the guaranteed investment certificate (GIC) rates on the institution's offer sheets as at each Friday, by term and issuer, for cashable, short-term fixed and other fixed-term GICs. The Bank of Canada uses it to monitor interest rate movements. Source

Official title: GIC Offer Sheet Return (GA-GB)

The facts

Who files
OSFI's reporting requirements table lists it for: selected banks. Not required from: trust and loan companies; banks or trust and loan companies that are subsidiaries of banks or of federally incorporated trust and loan companies; foreign bank branches. The table names the Bank of Canada as the contact agency. Source
How often
Weekly. Source
Deadline
Within 1 business day. Not subject to the Late and Erroneous Filing Penalties (LEFP) framework. The instructions say: "The return is to be completed as at the Friday of each week and submitted within 1 business day of each Friday." Source
Format
XML, Excel. Filed through RRS. OSFI publishes the return workbook and sample XML files for GA and GB. 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 (2)

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

  • GIC offer sheet return A (GA)
  • GIC offer sheet return B (GB)

The workbook has one sheet per template; the instructions say all reporting institutions must submit both GA and GB. Source

Validation rules

8,400 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 [1234] < 100).

The rules, on osfi-bsif.gc.ca

How they were counted

Counted 4200 rows with a rule in the 'Validation rules' sheet of ga-validation-en.xlsx (4200 error); 4200 rows with a rule in the 'Validation rules' sheet of gb-validation-en.xlsx (4200 error).

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: "Information from this return may be published by the Bank of Canada on an aggregated basis." Source

Official documents (9)

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.