Canada's Monthly International Securities Transactions and Repurchase Agreements

Monthly data on Canada's international transactions in securities and loans under repurchase agreements. The dataset includes sales, purchases, and net flows categorized by assets, liabilities, and type of instrument. It is published by Statistics Canada and was last updated on March 18, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling international capital flows based on monthly net transaction data.
• Analyzing trends in securities sales and purchases by instrument type.
• Forecasting financial market conditions using asset and liability transaction data.

Strengths

• Data is updated monthly, providing regular snapshots of financial activity.
• Published by Statistics Canada, a national statistical agency.
• Covers multiple transaction types: sales, purchases, and net flows.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Statistics Canada

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 12:47:51.276268; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada