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Economy1 Comment

The Canadian Economy Beyond the Recession | Bank of Canada

Colin Henderson

In this talk at Kingston last Tuesday, Tim Lane, Deputy Governor Bank of Canada lays out a quite lucid view [ 9 pages] of the opportunities and challenges facing Canada in recovery. Highlights: labour productivity and output is the fundamental challenge that existed before and will continue post recession the size of the working population is to decrease significantly for demographic reasons, and neither immigration nor baby boomers remaining longer in the workforce will significantly alter that prediction the financial services industry is critical to Canada at 20% of the economy Canadian producivity has been dropping because of insifficient investment … Continue reading The Canadian Economy Beyond the Recession | Bank of Canada

Payments2 Comments

Report: “The Role of Convenience and Risk in Consumers’ Means of Payment” | Bank of Canada

Colin Henderson

This is an unusual but insightful new working paper released today, on what the Bank of Canada refer to, in a somewhat quirky fashion, as “means of payment”. The survey and analysis compares use of cash, debit and credit. What is insightful, is that after establishing the consumer view on the three payment methods it tries to get at why people feel this way. When I asked Dave Birch the other day – what is the right strategy of banks and payments providers to increase their volumes? …. his answer was simple – increase share by taking it from cash. … Continue reading Report: “The Role of Convenience and Risk in Consumers’ Means of Payment” | Bank of Canada