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In forceMortgage insurers: capitalLast checked 11 November 2026

Mortgage insurer capital test (MICAT)

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

The Mortgage Insurer Capital Adequacy Test (MICAT) quarterly return: capital available and capital required for residential mortgages, credit risk and market risk, so regulators can monitor whether federally regulated mortgage insurers hold enough capital. Source

Official title: Mortgage Insurance Capital Adequacy Test (MICAT) (MI)

The facts

Who files
OSFI's reporting requirements tables list it for: Canadian mortgage insurers. Source
How often
Quarterly, plus an annual filing at year end. Source
Deadline
Quarterly filing: within 45 days. Annual filing: within 60 days. Subject to the Late and Erroneous Filing Penalties (LEFP) framework. Source
Format
XML. OSFI's federal filing requirements table (Section V) marks this filing as: XML file: Yes; special Excel file: No. 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 forceOSFI has published the 2027 MICAT return and validation rules (September 2026) alongside the 2026 version. Filed 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 insurers moves to RDH in Release 3; OSFI says more details on financial returns will come in 2027. Source
Group
Mortgage insurers: capital

Templates (10)

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

  • Capital Requirements for Federally Regulated Mortgage Insurers - Summary (10.10)
  • Capital Available (10.20)
  • Residential Mortgages: Outstanding Balances and Number of Mortgages (20.10)
  • Residential Mortgages: Base Total Requirements and Supplementary Capital Requirements (20.20)
  • Breakdown by Year of Mortgage Origination (20.30)
  • Multi-unit Residential Mortgages: Origination Balances, Outstanding Balances, Number of Mortgages and Total Requirements (20.40)
  • Credit Risk Capital Requirements for Balance Sheet Assets Based on External Credit Ratings (30.10)
  • Credit Risk Capital Requirements for Selected Balance Sheet Items and Recoverables/Receivables Not Based on External Credit Ratings (30.20)
  • Credit Risk Capital Required for Off-Balance Sheet Exposures (30.30)
  • Market Risk Capital Requirements (40.10)

Schedules (worksheets) in micat-tsah-return-releve-2026-03-17-en.xlsx, named from the workbook's table of contents or schedule titles. Source

Validation rules

615 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 EqualWithinThreshold([M1010202101],[M2020199999]+[M2020399999],0,10)).

The validation rules published for the next (2027) version, micat-tsah-validation-2026-09-10-en.xlsx, list 615 rules.

The rules, on osfi-bsif.gc.ca

How they were counted

Counted 615 rows with a rule in the 'Validation rules' sheet of micat-tsah-validation-2026-03-04-en.xlsx (615 error).

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

Public data

Published firm by firm. OSFI publishes data from this return institution by institution, with industry totals, as CSV files on the Government of Canada open data portal: "MI -Mortgage Insurance Capital Adequacy Test (Active)" in the Property and casualty companies dataset. Source

Where it is published (CSV)

  • OSFI financial data: Property and casualty companies (open.canada.ca)

    Firm by firm · CSV (long format: one row per institution, period and data point address, with English and French labels)

    Institution-by-institution data, with industry totals, from OSFI's returns for property and casualty companies, one CSV file per return: MI -Mortgage Insurance Capital Adequacy Test (Active); MI3 - Mortgage Insurers Core Financial Statement Return (Active); MI4 - Mortgage Insurers Supervisory Quarterly Return (Active); MI5 - Mortgage Insurers Supervisory Annual Return (Active); PC1 - P&C Core Financial Statement Return (Active); PC2 - P&C Supervisory Quarterly Return (Active); PC3 - P&C Supervisory Annual Return (Active); PC4 - P&C Minimum Capital Test and Branch Adequacy of Assets Test (Active). The dataset is updated quarterly (last updated on the portal 2026-10-21) and also holds 6 CSV files for returns OSFI no longer collects, a data dictionary and a user manual. The dataset page gives 2026 publication dates: monthly returns on or about the 15th of each month; quarterly returns about a week after the due date (Q1 due May 15, published May 23; Q2 due Aug 14, published Aug 22; Q3 due Nov 14, published Nov 22; Q4 due March 1, published March 19). Source

Official documents (11)

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.