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Being replacedCorporate returnsLast checked 11 November 2026

Board of directors information (OSFI-656)

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

Gives, for each director and the chair of the board, their country of citizenship, board committee memberships, affiliation type and details, whether they are an employee, and director type. The board, affiliate and committee information forms part of the public register OSFI keeps. Source

Official title: Board or Director Information Return (OSFI-656)

The facts

Who files
Canadian domestic banks and foreign bank subsidiaries, Canadian life and property and casualty insurers, Canadian fraternal benefit societies, credit union centrals, trust and loan companies and co-operative retail associations. Source
How often
After any change made at board meetings or during the year. Source
Deadline
No later than 30 days after the effective date of change. Not subject to the Late and Erroneous Filing Penalty (LEFP) framework. Source
Format
Other. Filed through the Regulatory Reporting System (RRS) as a corporate return; the instructions do not state a file format. 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
Being replacedFiled 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. OSFI says this return "will be de-commissioned" at the RDH launch: the data will instead be edited and updated in the new RDH Corporate Profile section. Source
Legal basis
Group
Corporate returns

Templates (0)

The library lists no templates for this return.

No template: the return is completed in RRS (or, for documents, uploaded as an attachment). Source

Validation rules

No published validation rules were found for this return. OSFI publishes no validation rules for corporate returns. Source

Public data

No published data from this return was found. OSFI keeps some of this information on a public register, but no dataset of these returns was found on OSFI's reporting or open data pages. Source

Official documents (2)

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.