by Barbara Hendrickson | Nov 19, 2019
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has published a year-end update on its burden reduction efforts for Ontario capital market participants, Reducing Regulatory Burden in Ontario’s Capital Markets, 2019 (the Update). In OSC Staff Notice 11-784, Burden...
by Barbara Hendrickson | Nov 19, 2019
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) and the participating jurisdictions of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia (the Participating Jurisdictions) have signed a cooperation agreement (the Agreement)...
by Barbara Hendrickson | Nov 12, 2019
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has completed its review of the disclosure of 70 Canadian Cannabis industry registrants, CSA Staff Notice 51-357, Staff Review of Reporting Issuers in the Cannabis Industry (the Staff Notice). Prior to the Cannabis Act,...
by Barbara Hendrickson | Nov 5, 2019
The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has acted to protect the investors of one BC-based cryptocurrency exchange while launching an investigation against a second. On October 31, 2019 the counsel representing the Vancouver-based Einstein Exchange...
by Barbara Hendrickson | Nov 4, 2019
The Ontario Securities Commission has granted limited-time approval to TokenGX Inc. (TokenGX or the Company) for the creation of a blockchain-based security token (token). TokenGX sought approval to create its blockchain-based security token trading platform (the...