In the fourth quarter of 2019, we will publish a report which analyses major market trends in ESG and green finance including an outlook on the way forward. And we are organising a financial markets conference on sustainability in October.
These transactions provide the immediate margin of adjustment for financial institutions’ funding structures. To give you a sense of magnitude, on 30 March 2012, the repo positions on the securities of Canadian banks were valued at a total of $ billion (approximately 5 per cent of their Canadian-dollar-denominated assets). Government of Canada securities provided the underlying collateral for almost 70 per cent of transactions.