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- Canadian securities regulators issue warning about crypto trading
On November 21, 2022, the Canadian Securities Administrators (the CSA) issued a warning to investors about elevated risks of trading crypto assets. The CSA statement warns that there are unregistered crypto asset trading platforms which may lack essential safeguards to protect investors’ assets from … Read more »
- Québec Court of Appeal rules on consequence of voluntary disclosure of privileged information made to law enforcement in the context of an investigation
On October 17, 2022, the Québec Court of Appeal in Centre universitaire de santé McGill c. Lemay[1] (Lemay) held that the voluntary disclosure of a solicitor-client privileged forensic accounting report to a police force in the context of a criminal investigation did not constitute a waiver of said … Read more »
- New crypto guidance for federally regulated entities
On November 16, 2022, a joint statement was released to federally regulated entities engaging in crypto-asset activities or crypto-related services by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC), and the Canada Deposit Insurance C … Read more »
- Transparency International identifies concerns with Canadian enforcement in biannual report
In recent years, Canada has faced criticism for a perceived lack of anti-corruption enforcement. Much has been written about this, including in our Risk Blog (see our posts Is Canada rising to the challenge? Responding to calls for more effective financial crime prevention and enforcement and Canada … Read more »
- Clawing it back: SEC adopts listing standards to prevent executives from benefiting from misstatements in financial statements
On October 26, 2022, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) adopted new compensation recovery listing standards and disclosure rules which will apply to issuers with securities listed on a U.S. national securities exchange such as the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ. These … Read more »