Nov 30, 2021 | Client-Focused Reforms (CFRs), Featured, Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
In this bulletin: Ontario’s New Draft Capital Markets Act – Topics of Interest to Registrants Déjà vu – Titles, Titles and More Titles – Proposed Amendments to Draft FSRA Guidance In Brief: FSRA Consults on Consumer Advisory Panel ▪ Independent Evaluation of OBSI ▪...
Nov 30, 2021 | Corporate Finance, Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
In the previous issue of our bulletin, we provided a high level report on the new draft Capital Markets Act (Act) released by the Ontario Ministry of Finance (Finance) on October 12, 2021. In this issue, we highlight some of the provisions of the Act, together with...
Nov 30, 2021 | Regulatory Compliance
The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) has released additional proposed changes to its draft Financial Professionals Title Protection (FPTP) Application Guidance, which describes its approach to the administration of applications for...
Nov 30, 2021 | Regulatory Compliance
The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario’s (FSRA’s) Consumer Advisory Panel provides input to FSRA on its regulatory activities from a consumer perspective through FSRA’s Consumer Office. The Panel’s mandate includes providing input on FSRA’s statement...
Nov 30, 2021 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
Professor Poonam Puri has been appointed by the board of The Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI) to undertake an independent evaluation of OBSI’s operations. As the evaluation includes input from stakeholders, two requests for comment have been...
Nov 30, 2021 | Regulatory Compliance
On November 4, 2021, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published CSA Multilateral Staff Notice 58-313, its seventh annual review of disclosures relating to women in board and executive roles at reporting issuers (the Report). The Report reviewed the...
Nov 30, 2021 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
On November 1, 2021, CFA Institute issued its Global Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Disclosure Standards for Investment Products (Standards). The Standards are the first voluntary global standards designed to report on how an investment product considers...
Nov 30, 2021 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
On November 18, 2021 the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) issued a news release announcing progress on the creation of a new self-regulatory organization (SRO) for the investment industry and a new investor protection fund (IPF). The new SRO will consolidate...
Nov 30, 2021 | Regulatory Compliance
On November 18, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) published OSC Notice 11-794 Statement of Priorities seeking comment on its draft 2022-2023 Statement of Priorities (SoP) to inform its business planning for the fiscal year ending on March 31, 2023. The OSC has...
Nov 30, 2021 | Regulatory Compliance
We assist many businesses that are obtaining registration as an exempt market dealer, adviser and/or investment fund manager for the first time. Often, those seeking registration for their start-up businesses have engaged in other types of activities prior to...
Nov 30, 2021 | Client-Focused Reforms (CFRs), Regulatory Compliance
As previously mentioned in our bulletins, as part of the client-focused reforms to National Instrument 31-103 Registration Requirements, Exemptions and Ongoing Registrant Obligations, a new prohibition on misleading communications will apply as of the end of the year....
Nov 30, 2021 | Regulatory Compliance
As we noted in last month’s bulletin, Form 13-502F4 – Capital Markets Participation Fee Calculation is due to be filed with the OSC by registrants no later than December 1, 2021. This requirement applies to firms in Ontario registered under the Securities Act,...
Nov 30, 2021 | News, Regulatory Compliance
National Instrument 45-106 – Prospectus Exemptions (NI 45-106) exempts certain distributions of securities from the prospectus requirements. However, reliance on many of these exemptions requires issuers to report prospectus-exempt distributions to every securities...
Nov 30, 2021 | BLG Resource Corner
Our colleagues at BLG have written a number of articles we thought might interest our readers, including the following: Mandatory Climate Related Disclosure Heats up: The CSA Seeks Comments on National Instrument Dufault v Toronto Dominion Bank: First Decision to...
