Nov 29, 2024 | Regulatory Compliance
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) except for the British Columbia Securities Commission (pending governmental approval post-election) have published proposed amendments (Proposed Amendments) to Multilateral Instrument 13-102 System Fees (MI 13-102). As a...
Nov 29, 2024 | Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO), Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) announced on November 20 that as part of an effort to create efficiencies and reduce regulatory burden its members are considering delegating select registration functions to the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization...
Nov 29, 2024 | Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO), Regulatory Compliance
At the time of this publication, there is an ongoing postal strike across Canada. Various regulators have issued statements or other guidance, reminding market participants that securities law contains various requirements with respect to the filing of documents with...
Aug 30, 2024 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
In late June, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published the 2024 CSA Investor Index (Index). This is the sixth iteration of the Index, with the previous version published a little while ago in 2020. The long-running survey is designed to track certain key...
Jun 27, 2024 | Regulatory Compliance
As you may recall reading in our earlier bulletin articles, amendments to National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus Exemptions (NI 45-106) that took effect on March 8, 2023 (the Amendments) require issuers that rely on the offering memorandum (OM) prospectus exemption in...
May 30, 2024 | Investment Funds, Mortgage and Real Estate Investment Vehicles, Regulatory Compliance
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has announced a number of time-limited exemptions from the dealer registration requirements to support capital raising for early-stage Ontario businesses. These initiatives are part of the OSC TestLab Program and include an...
Apr 24, 2024 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
As first reported in our November 2023 bulletin, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) was consulting on new fees applicable to certain dealers. The final amendments to OSC Rule 13-502 Fees and OSC Rule 13-503 (Commodity Futures Act) Fees have now been published....
Apr 24, 2024 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
Back in November, 2022 we wrote about CSA Consultation Paper 21-403 Access to Real-Time Market Data, which dealt with concerns about the cost of accessing market data in Canada where there are multiple marketplaces competing for the same securities to trade. The...
Mar 28, 2024 | Regulatory Compliance
In our February bulletin, we wrote about the importance of updating your SEDAR+ profile if the information contained in the profile is inaccurate. Generally, information must be updated no later than 10 days after the date on which the transmitter knew, or reasonably...
Jan 31, 2024 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
On January 8, 2024, the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) launched a public consultation (the Consultation) on a multi-year approach (the Proposed Approach) designed to create more positive outcomes and enhanced protections for vulnerable...
Nov 30, 2023 | Economic Sanctions, Regulatory Compliance
The Ministry of Finance in Ontario (Ministry) released a consultation last month that would impact the time the public is afforded to comment on proposed rules released by either the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) or the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of...
Nov 30, 2023 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has proposed amendments to OSC Rule 13-502 Fees and OSC Rule 13-503 (Commodity Futures Act) Fees in order to charge new fees for (i) restricted dealers and (ii) firms that are permitted to carry on business under terms and...
Nov 30, 2023 | Events, News
AUM Law’s founder Kevin Cohen had the pleasure of moderating the annual AIMA Canada Regulatory Forum, which discusses a number of current topics impacting compliance, registration and investment funds, as well as questions for the regulators on November 30. November...
Aug 31, 2023 | Corporate Finance, Corporate Law, Economic Sanctions, Regulatory Compliance
Earlier this month, the Ontario Ministry of Finance released a proposed new regulation under the Securities Commission Act, 2021 which would expand the purposes for which the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) can utilize enforcement money collected as a result of...
