Nov 30, 2022 | Regulatory Compliance
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has released its most recent draft statement of priorities (SoP) in OSC Notice 11-797 – Request for Comments Regarding Statement of Priorities for Financial Year to End March 31, 2024. The draft SoP is open for comment until...
Nov 30, 2022 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
Earlier this month, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) released CSA Consultation Paper 21-403 Access to Real-Time Market Data, focusing on the costs of various types of access. As defined in the Consultation Paper, ‘real-time market data’ is order and trade...
Nov 30, 2022 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) recently announced that new OSC Rule 13-502 Fees and OSC Rule 13-503 (Commodity Futures Act) Fees and their respective companion policies will come into effect on April 2, 2023. As noted in our January 2022 bulletin article, the...
Nov 30, 2022 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
On November 25, the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) proposed amendments to the existing Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices (UDAP) Rule. The amendments would eliminate deferred sales charges (DSC) on new segregated fund contracts effective...
Nov 30, 2022 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
The CSA recently published notices that recognize the New Self-Regulatory Organization of Canada (New SRO) and approve the Canadian Investor Protection Fund (CIPF) both as of January 1, 2023. As set out in our May 2022 bulletin, the CSA released CSA Staff Notice and...
Nov 30, 2022 | Regulatory Compliance
A few impending filing deadlines that we thought would be helpful to note from past bulletins for your reference: December 1 (yes, December 1) is the deadline for registrants in Ontario and foreign firms that rely on certain exemptions from the registration...
Nov 30, 2022 | BLG Resource Corner
Our colleagues at BLG have provided the following insights we thought might interest our readers: Privacy Commissioner decision provides guidance for parties to M&A transactions OSC adopts self-certified investor prospectus exemption Data governance and privacy...
Nov 30, 2022 | Events, News
AUM Law is proud to sponsor the Q Wealth Partners National Conference held at the St. Regis Hotel in Toronto on December 7-9. AUM’s very own William (Bill) Donegan will participate as a speaker on December 9, to discuss the topic of SRO Consolidation. November 30,...
Nov 30, 2022 | Events, News, Regulatory Compliance
AUM Law’s Chris Tooley will be participating as a speaker for the second year in a row at the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing Training Session hosted by PMAC. Chris will be covering core concepts around money laundering and terrorist financing,...
