by Barbara Hendrickson | Jun 11, 2018
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has warned Canadians to be careful when buying cryptocurrency assets through trading platforms. The CSA advises although a platform may call itself an “exchange,” that does not mean it is complying with...
by Barbara Hendrickson | May 29, 2018
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) last Thursday published for comment CSA Staff Notice 21-323 Proposal for Mandatory Post-Trade Transparency of Trades in Government Debt Securities, Expanded Transparency of Trades in Corporate Debt Securities and Proposed...
by Barbara Hendrickson | May 29, 2018
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) announced this month it had participated with over 40 North American Securities regulators in Operation Cryptosweep, in a coordinated effort to take down fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes. Since its launch at the beginning of...
by Barbara Hendrickson | May 29, 2018
On May 10, 2018, the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) issued Staff Notice 2018-003, Prospectus Offerings and Private Placements (the Staff Notice), which provides guidance regarding pricing a prospectus offering or private placement where there has been recent disclosure...
by Barbara Hendrickson | May 17, 2018
Since their inception, cryptocurrencies and their underlying blockchain technologies have been touted by their promoters as both secure and anonymous. Unfortunately, as a number of recent breaches by hackers into blockchain-based cryptocurrency exchanges have shown,...
