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

Geographic assets and liabilities booked in Canada (GQ)

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

Shows the size and nature of the institution's claims, other exposures and liabilities to residents of Canada and of other countries that are booked in Canada, in Canadian and foreign currency. The data help measure Canada's balance of payments and international investment position, and are the basis for Canada's reporting to the Bank for International Settlements. Source

Official title: Geographic Assets and Liabilities Booked In Canada (GQ)

The facts

Who files
OSFI's reporting requirements table lists it for: banks; foreign bank branches. 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. The table names the Bank of Canada as the contact agency. Source
How often
Each calendar quarter. Source
Deadline
Within 40 days. Not subject to the Late and Erroneous Filing Penalties (LEFP) framework. The instructions say: "This return is to be completed as at the last day of each quarter and submitted within 40 days of the reporting date." 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.

  • Booked in Canada (GQ)

OSFI publishes this return as a single form (GM_GQ_2022.xlsx). Source

Validation rules

162 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('0003', 'COUNTRY', '999', MakeStringArray('110,124,135,146,202,205,207,20...).

The rules, on osfi-bsif.gc.ca

How they were counted

Counted 162 rows with a rule in the 'Validation rules' sheet of gq-validation-en.xlsx (162 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 certain information is published on a total-for-all-institutions basis in the Bank of Canada Banking and Financial Statistics, in Statistics Canada publications and on the website of the Bank for International Settlements. 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.

Knowing exactly what is collected, in what format and under which rules is the first step to real-time supervision. Line4 builds SupTech software for financial regulators that runs checks like these as each return arrives.

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Last checked 11 November 2026.