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In forceDeposit-taking institutions: liquidityLast checked 11 November 2026

Pledging and repos (U3)

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

Gives OSFI information on the nature and extent of the institution's pledging of assets, including repurchase agreements (repos). Source

Official title: Pledging & REPOS (U3)

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 45 days. Subject to the Late and Erroneous Filing Penalties (LEFP) framework. The instructions say: "The return is to be completed as of the last day of each quarter and submitted within 45 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: liquidity

Templates (1)

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

  • Pledging and Repos (U3)

OSFI publishes this return as a single form (U3.xls). Source

Validation rules

62 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([9884], [9866] + [9867] + [9868] + [9869] + [9870] + [9871] + [9872] ...).

The rules, on osfi-bsif.gc.ca

How they were counted

Counted 62 rows with a rule in the 'Validation rules' sheet of u3-validation-en.xlsx (62 error).

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. The instructions say: "Information from this return is not published." 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.

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Last checked 11 November 2026.