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,...
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...
by Barbara Hendrickson | Apr 19, 2018
Barbara Hendrickson will speak at the Canadian Bar Association Environmental, Energy & Resources Law Summit on May 31 – June 1, 2018 in Winnipeg Manitoba on “Environment and Financial Markets” Barbara will speak on a CBA panel which will review the roles of legal...
by Barbara Hendrickson | Apr 15, 2018
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has published for comment CSA Staff Notice 61-303 and Request for Comment Soliciting Dealer Arrangements (The Staff Notice). The Staff Notice outlines regulatory issues raised by soliciting dealer arrangements and seeks...
by Barbara Hendrickson | Apr 11, 2018
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) announced today that its Mediation Program, which began as a pilot in 2015, will now continue on a permanent basis. The Mediation Program, the first and only of its kind in Canada offered by a securities regulator provides a...
