Category: Regulatory Compliance
Sep 30, 2020 | Investment Funds, News, Regulatory Compliance
On September 14, staff of the Compliance and Registrant Regulation (CRR) Branch at the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) published their Annual Summary Report for Dealers, Advisers and Investment Fund Managers (Report). The OSC encourages registrants to use the...
Sep 30, 2020 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
On September 17, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published final rule amendments (Amendments) to National Instrument 81-105 Mutual Fund Sales Practices (NI 81-105) and certain other instruments to prohibit: The payment of trailing commissions by members...
Sep 30, 2020 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
On September 18, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published Staff Notice 81-333 Guidance on Effective Liquidity Risk Management for Investment Funds (Guidance) to help funds develop and maintain an effective liquidity risk management (LRM) framework. The...
Sep 30, 2020 | Cyber-security and Data Privacy, Regulatory Compliance
On September 15, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) published Developing Financial Sector Resilience in a Digital World: Selected Themes in Technology and Related Risks (Discussion Paper) for comment. Although OSFI’s mandate concerns...
Sep 30, 2020 | Mortgage and Real Estate Investment Vehicles, Regulatory Compliance
As readers of our bulletin know, the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) is a relatively new regulatory agency that, in 2019, took over regulatory oversight of mortgage brokers and administrators from the Financial Services Commission of Ontario....
Sep 30, 2020 | Mortgage and Real Estate Investment Vehicles, Regulatory Compliance
On September 24, the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) published for comment 22 proposed service standards (Standards) for its operations. They include, among other things, performance targets for handling individual applications for mortgage...
Aug 31, 2020 | Corporate Finance, Investment Funds, Mortgage and Real Estate Investment Vehicles, Regulatory Compliance
On August 6, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published final amendments to national rules affecting the prospectus and registration exemptions for distributions of securities involving syndicated mortgages (National Amendments). In addition, some...
Aug 31, 2020 | Regulatory Compliance
On August 13, the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) published for comment Proposed Rule [2020-001] Financial Professional Title Protection (Rule), which will require individuals who use either the financial advisor (FA) or financial planner...
Aug 31, 2020 | Cyber-security and Data Privacy, Regulatory Compliance
On August 13, the Ontario Ministry of Government and Consumer Services (Ministry) launched a consultation (Consultation) regarding potential reforms to Ontario’s privacy laws. Currently, the principal legislation governing privacy matters in Ontario’s asset management...
Aug 31, 2020 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
On August 27, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published a report on their four-year study of what individual investors think about fees and the performance of their investments and how they interact with their advisors (Report). The study was conducted to...
Aug 31, 2020 | COVID-19, Regulatory Compliance
On August 12, the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a Risk Alert outlining compliance risk considerations for broker-dealers and investment advisors. Although the Risk Alert is most...
Aug 31, 2020 | Regulatory Compliance
Earlier this month, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published their first decision registering a crypto asset trading platform under their Regulatory Sandbox program. Wealthsimple Digital Assets Inc. (Wealthsimple) has been granted temporary exemptions...
Aug 31, 2020 | Events, News, Regulatory Compliance
AUM Law is a proud sponsor of the Fall Regulatory and Compliance Webcast organized by the Portfolio Management Association of Canada (PMAC) on September 24. Click here to register for the event. We hope to (virtually) see you there and don’t forget to drop into our...
Aug 31, 2020 | COVID-19, Regulatory Compliance
On August 19, the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) reported on the activities of its COVID-19 Enforcement Task Force (Task Force), which has initiated actions to disrupt 200 schemes intended to profit fraudulently from the pandemic....
Jul 31, 2020 | Regulatory Compliance
The Senior Issues and Diminished Capacity Committee (Committee) of the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), which usually focuses on issues relating to senior and vulnerable investors, recently published a research report (Report) examining...
