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According to a recent speech in San Francisco, earlier this month by Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s William Hinman, Ether – the cryptocurrency behind the Ethereum network – should not be regulated in the same way as stocks and bonds. These comments, by Hinman, the…

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has published a notice and second request for comment on Proposed National Instrument 93-101 Derivatives: Business Conduct and Proposed Companion Policy 93-101 CP Derivatives: Business Conduct (the Proposed Instrument). The Proposed Instrument establishes a business conduct regime for regulating dealers…

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On May 31, 2018, the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC), published an update, varying BC Instrument 94-501 – Exemption from the mandatory clearing requirements in National Instrument 94-101 – Mandatory Central Counterparty Clearing of Derivatives for certain counterparties to extend the exemption. The full text…

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 securities regulations. Currently, there are no crypto-asset trading…

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 Amendments to National Instrument 21-101(the Proposed Amendments). The comment period…

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 May, Cryptosweep resulted in nearly 70 inquiries…

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 of material information. Generally, the TSX requires…

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, this is not the case. Blockchain technology, which relies upon…