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,...
by Barbara Hendrickson | May 15, 2018
The provinces and territory (British Columbia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, and Yukon – the Participating Jurisdictions) participating in the development of the Cooperative Capital Markets Regulatory System (Cooperative System) have...
by Barbara Hendrickson | Apr 26, 2018
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has published for comment Proposed National Instrument 93-102 Derivatives: Registration and Proposed Companion Policy 93-102 Derivatives: Registration (Together, these are referred to as the Proposed Instrument.) The...
