by Barbara Hendrickson | Sep 4, 2019
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and the Toronto Dominion Bank (TD) have agreed to pay the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) over CAD $24 million for their failure to properly supervise their respective Foreign Exchange (FX) traders who exchanged confidential client...
by Barbara Hendrickson | Aug 27, 2019
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has provided guidance to firms seeking to engage the services of compliance consultants (Consultants) following a regulatory decision. CSA Staff Notice 31-356, Guidance on Compliance Consultants (The Staff Notice) defines...
by Barbara Hendrickson | Aug 27, 2019
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has issued Staff Notice 11-787 Improving Fee Disclosure Through Behavioural Insights (the Staff Notice), outlining the findings of a research report (the Report) aimed at improving the investor’s experience with correspondingly...
by Barbara Hendrickson | Aug 17, 2019
The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Ontario’s approach to syndicated mortgage investments started to take shape with the publication of two key documents early in August. The first was the regulator’s Request for Comment – Proposed Supervision...
by Barbara Hendrickson | Aug 17, 2019
The 2018 Annual Report of the Joint Regulators Committee (JRC) of the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI) (the Annual Report) has been published jointly by its member organizations: the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), the Investment...
