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The receiver general for Canada ( French: receveur général du Canada) is responsible for making payments to the Government of Canada each fiscal year, accepting payments from financial institutions and preparing the Public Accounts of Canada, containing annual audited financial statements of the Government of Canada.
Canadian Payments Association, carrying on business under the brand name Payments Canada, is an organization that operates a payment clearing and settlement system in Canada. The Canadian Payments Association was established by the Canadian Payments Act in 1980. Among other responsibilities, it regulates and maintains directories of bank ...
Large Value Transfer System. The Large Value Transfer System, or LVTS, was the primary system in Canada for electronic wire transfers of large sums of money, and was operated by Payments Canada. It permitted the participating institutions and their clients to send large sums of money securely in real-time with complete certainty that the ...
A routing number is the term for bank codes in Canada. Routing numbers consist of eight numerical digits with a dash between the fifth and sixth digit for paper financial documents encoded with magnetic ink character recognition and nine numerical digits without dashes for electronic funds transfers. Routing numbers are regulated by Payments ...
Pix is an instant payment platform created and managed by the monetary authority of Brazil, the Central Bank of Brazil (BCB), [1] which enables the quick execution of payments and transfers. [2] Pix was announced in the summer of 2019, [3] and was fully operational on November 16, 2020. [1] The "Pix" brand name and logo were created in-house by ...
The Senate of Canada ( French: Sénat du Canada) is the upper house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Crown and the House of Commons, they compose the bicameral legislature of Canada. The Senate is modelled after the British House of Lords with members appointed by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister. [1]
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement ( CETA) is a free-trade agreement between Canada and the European Union and its member states. [5] [6] [7] It has been provisionally applied, [8] thus removing 98% of the preexisting tariffs between the two parts. The negotiations were concluded in August 2014.
The Treasury Board of Canada ( French: Conseil du Trésor du Canada) is the Cabinet committee of the Privy Council of Canada which oversees the spending and operation of the Government of Canada and is the principal employer of the core public service. [1] The committee is supported by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, its ...