Aug 30, 2024 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
In Québec, the Regulation respecting complaint processing and dispute resolution in the financial sector (the Regulation) comes into effect on July 1, 2025. This regulation follows the consultation that the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) conducted in November...
Aug 30, 2024 | Anti-Money Laundering, Regulatory Compliance
Reporting entities such as advisers and dealers are required by FINTRAC to monitor clients with whom they have a business relationship on an ongoing basis. One reason ongoing monitoring is required relates to the obligation to report suspicious transactions to...
Aug 30, 2024 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
The new Multilateral Instrument 93-101 Derivatives: Business Conduct (MI 93-101) and its related companion policy come into force shortly on September 28, 2024. MI 93-101 will have a direct impact on firms that advise or deal in over-the-counter derivatives (OTC...
Jul 31, 2024 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
On July 25, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) announced specific temporary exemptions from various obligations in National Instrument 93-101 Derivatives: Business Conduct (NI 93-101) which comes into force on September 28, 2024. As a reminder, the new rule...
Jul 31, 2024 | Anti-Money Laundering, Regulatory Compliance
As all registrants know, reporting entities including advisers and dealers are required to report suspicious transactions for money laundering or terrorist financing to the Financial Transactions and Reports Centre of Canada (FINTRAC). As of August 19, 2024,...
Jun 27, 2024 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
On May 27, 2024, the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) launched a public consultation on its new proposed rules that will affect all insurers that offer customers individual variable insurance contracts (also known as individual segregated...
Apr 24, 2024 | Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO), Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
On April 18, 2024, the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) published for comment Phase 3 of its Rule Consolidation Project proposals. The objective of Phase 3 is to adopt rules that are common to the IDPC and MFD Rules and have been assessed as not...
Oct 31, 2023 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
The Canadian securities regulators adopted a business conduct rule for derivatives dealers and advisers which will become effective on September 28, 2024 (the rule or MI 93-101). British Columbia intends to adopt substantially similar rules and when they do so, the...
