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...
Feb 29, 2024 | Regulatory Compliance
The System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR+), is the web-based system that is now used to file, disclose, and search for information regarding firms in Canada’s capital markets. SEDAR+ includes extended search capabilities, access to historical...
Jan 31, 2024 | BLG Resource Corner
Our colleagues at BLG have provided the following insights we thought might interest our readers: New trust reporting rules are now in effect Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation – 2023 Year in Review Is the printed prospectus dead? CSA to implement access model for...
Jan 31, 2024 | Regulatory Compliance
On January 11, 2024, the CSA published final rules to permit issuers (other than investment fund issuers, i.e. corporate finance issuers) to adopt an access equals delivery model for most prospectuses. The model does not apply to prospectuses for rights, medium-term...
Dec 21, 2023 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
If you haven’t yet turned your mind to your annual exempt trade reports for investment fund issuers, now is the time. As noted in last month’s bulletin, investment funds relying on specified prospectus exemptions under National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus Exemptions...
Nov 30, 2023 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
It is never too early to think about filing exempt trade reports for investment fund issuers that file on an annual basis. Investment funds that have relied on specified prospectus exemptions under National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus Exemptions, being the accredited...
Sep 28, 2023 | Client-Focused Reforms (CFRs), Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
On September 13, 2023, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) published Staff Notice 81-734 Summary Report for Investment Fund and Structured Product Issuers (the IFM Report). The IFM Report provides an overview of the key operational and policy initiatives of the...
Sep 28, 2023 | Client-Focused Reforms (CFRs), Cyber-security and Data Privacy, Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
This month, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) released its ‘Year in Review’ which summarizes the activities of the provincial and territorial regulators over the past year (July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023) (the Report). The Report outlines the CSA’s strategic...
Jul 31, 2023 | Regulatory Compliance
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) announced on July 20 with effect from July 21, 2023, that they were issuing substantively harmonized exemptions from the requirement to file certain private placement forms [Form 45-106F1 Report of Exempt Distribution]...
