by Barbara Hendrickson | Sep 24, 2019
A British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) panel has imposed a total of CAD $1.7 million in fines and lifetime securities trading bans on three British Columbia men and two Mortgage Investment Corporations (MICs) after finding them guilty of committing fraud. At...
by Barbara Hendrickson | Sep 19, 2019
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has announced that it is amending the fee rules (the Rules) for the submitting of annual capital market participation fee forms (the Fee Forms) to the OSC to allow market participants great flexibility. All market participants...
by Barbara Hendrickson | Sep 18, 2019
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has published its 2019 Annual Report (the Annual Report), providing a snapshot of the regulator’s initiatives and actions over the past year. In the Annual Report, the OSC noted that in 2018 -2019: • there were 68,366 registered...
by Barbara Hendrickson | Sep 16, 2019
The Canadian Security Administrators (CSA) have introduced for a ninety-day comment period ending December 11, 2019, eight initiatives (collectively, The Proposed Amendments) that seek to reduce the regulatory burden on investment funds by eliminating duplicate...
by Barbara Hendrickson | Sep 6, 2019
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) have published for a request for comment to proposed amendments to the business acquisition report (BAR) requirements for reporting issuers that are not venture issuer (e.g. an investment fund). The ninety-day comment...
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...
