The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) recently published their 2024 – 2025 Year in Review (The Year in Review), highlighting the regulator’s activities during the past year, including the issuing of over one thousand investor alerts, with the majority of those relating to crypto assets.
The regulator also reported that it carried out enforcement actions in 20 crypto-related matters, representing a 33.3% increase from the 15 crypto-related enforcement actions it carried out in the previous year.
Other CSA activities noted in the report include:
- Banning permanently 54 companies and individuals from participating in the capital markets following enforcement proceedings;
- Issuing 57 publications about final adoption of rule changes, consultations, blanket orders and guidance on CSA policy developments;
- Reaching over 4.5 million Canadians through its “Check Registration” and “Spot the Red Flags of Fraud” investor education campaigns; and,
- Hosting representatives of 155 organizations at the CSA Collaboratory’s inaugural webinar on Data Portability.
The 2024-2025 Year in Review is available for download from the website of the Canadian Securities Administrators.
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