Regulatory - Canada

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• Funding portals expected despite crowdfunding disclosure burdens

  12 April 2012

  Crowdfunding intermediaries will face many of the investor protection burdens included in the Jobs Act. Companies are expected to use them as funding portals or broker-dealers, nonetheless

• Could Volcker make Toronto the next New York?

  07 February 2012

  Toronto has been touted as the top choice for foreign banks looking to escape aspects of the Volcker Rule. But is it really feasible?

• FREE: Unprecedented foreign regulator complaints to change Volcker

  07 February 2012

  More foreign regulators are expected to contact US authorities with complaints about the proposed Volcker Rule's restrictions on sovereign debt trading

• Court ruling leaves two options for Canadian regulator

  11 January 2012

  Canadian Parliament was allotted two options in pursuit of a national securities regulator following a Supreme Court ruling that the Securities Act overreached provincial jurisdiction over the regulation of property and civil rights

• Traders to benefit from Canadian securities regulator

  28 September 2011

  Canadian traders are likely to see a decrease in compliance costs if a national securities regulator is approved by the Supreme Court of Canada