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Byline: GREG McARTHUR, TIM KILADZE Lead Bridging Finance Inc.'s largest borrower used fabricated documents when posting collateral, falsely suggesting to the private lender he had nearly $180-million in investments, The [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, TIM KILADZE Lead After more than a decade as a financial consultant and money manager, Alejandro Cardot had a knack for spotting the flaws in investment pitches. [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA, GREG McARTHUR Lead Ontario's Finance Minister is calling on the province's securities watchdog to review a move by several of Canada's largest banks to stop the sale [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, Staff Lead The founder of what was once one of Canada's largest financial planning companies has been convicted of fraud after he sold millions of dollars worth [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA, Staff Lead Ontario's securities watchdog says new regulations that will soon require advisers to have deeper knowledge of the funds they recommend to clients should not have [...]

Byline: TIM KILADZE, GREG MCARTHUR Lead As the Ontario Securities Commission began to probe Bridging Finance Inc., a family trust created by the private lender's top executives allegedly moved misappropriated [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, Staff Lead One of the first fraud cases brought against a Canadian cannabis company will be argued, in part, in a room sealed to nearly everyone but [...]

Byline: VANMALA SUBRAMANIAM, Staff Lead Binance, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has ceased operations in Ontario after opting not to become registered as a regulated crypto trading platform [...]

Byline: TIM KILADZE, GREG McARTHUR Lead Alaska-Alberta Railway Development Corp., Bridging Finance Inc.'s largest borrower, has told clients it plans to file for creditor protection, creating more uncertainty for the [...]

Byline: VANMALA SUBRAMANIAM, Staff Lead The Ontario Securities Commission has given Wealthsimple approval to offer more digital coins and tokens on its trading platform - beyond just bitcoin and Ether [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Lead The Ontario Securities Commission is taking action against another foreign cryptocurrency company after it failed to enter discussions about bringing its platforms into [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, TIM KILADZE Lead The court-appointed receiver in control of Bridging Finance Inc. alleges that the lender's former chief executive officer asked an employee to delete thousands of [...]

Byline: VANMALA SUBRAMANIAM, Staff Lead Ontario's securities regulator could face challenges in enforcing a ban on unregistered foreign cryptocurrency trading platforms doing trades for Ontario residents, especially if the agency [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Lead The Ontario Securities Commission is taking action against two foreign cryptocurrency companies after a deadline to enter discussions about bringing their platforms into [...]

Byline: VANMALA SUBRAMANIAM, Staff Lead Ontario's securities regulator is seeking to suspend trading by international cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex after it breached provincial rules by failing to register with the Ontario [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA, Staff Lead As the price of bitcoin continues to tumble this week, the head of Ontario's securities regulator stands by its decision earlier this year to be [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, TIM KILADZE Lead As an alternative lender to borrowers who are too risky for the banks, Bridging Finance Inc. specializes in sticky situations. Yet earlier this year, [...]

Byline: GREG MCARTHUR, TIM KILADZE Lead An Ontario judge has placed alternative lender Bridging Finance Inc. under the control of a receiver following allegations that the money manager improperly used [...]

Byline: VANMALA SUBRAMANIAM, Staff Lead The Ontario Securities Commission will begin taking steps to enforce new rules on cryptocurrency trading platforms that have failed to meet an April 19 deadline [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA, Staff Lead Canadian asset managers are racing to launch the world's first cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund to track the price performance of Ether now that regulators have given [...]

Byline: DAVID MILSTEAD, CLARE O'HARA Lead The body that regulates investment dealers has abandoned plans for a new disciplinary program for minor offences, after pushback from investor advocates as well [...]

Byline: JAREN KERR, Staff Lead In late January, the Ontario Securities Commission announced that it had seen such a large surge in prospectus filings, it might need to triage them [...]

Byline: VANMALA SUBRAMANIAM, Staff Lead The Ontario government plans to move ahead with an overhaul of the Ontario Securities Commission, pushing an expanded mandate for the regulator and proposing a [...]

Byline: IAN RUSSELL Lead President and CEO of the Investment Industry Association of Canada The Canadian Securities Administrators issued an open letter on Feb. 12 in response to the final [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA, Staff Lead Purpose Investments Inc. has been cleared by regulators to launch the world's first bitcoin exchange traded fund, opening the door for retail investors to more [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, Staff Lead Reddit chatter from individual investors fuelled massive gains for struggling stocks in a battle against Wall Street professionals. But then the declines began after trading [...]

Byline: GREG McARTHUR, Staff Lead The Ontario Securities Commission has accused a subsidiary of Bloomberg LP of permitting US$228.5-billion of improper fixed-income trading on its platform, and says the data [...]

Byline: GREG MCARTHUR, Staff Lead Anticipated changes about how syndicated mortgages are regulated in Ontario have been pushed back to July, 2021. The Ontario Securities Commission announced Monday that it [...]

Byline: WALIED SOLIMAN Lead Canadian Chair of Norton Rose Fulbright and Chair of the Capital Markets Modernization Taskforce. This piece is adapted from a speech given this week to 700 [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA, Staff Lead It is time to consolidate. This is the view of several former chairs of the Ontario Securities Commission and the current head of the province's [...]

Byline: MARK RENDELL, Staff Lead Ontario's securities regulator is increasing its focus on novel ways for startups to raise capital, such as crowdfunding and angel investing, after a push from [...]

Byline: MARK RENDELL, Staff Lead Some proposals to change the way Ontario investigates and punishes capital market offences could make it difficult for the province's securities regulator to work with [...]

Byline: DOUGLAS WALKER Lead Deputy director of the Canadian Foundation for Advancement of Investor Rights (FAIR Canada) Too many Canadians continue to be victims of misleading sales practices and advice [...]

Byline: CLARE O'HARA, Staff Lead After a three-year battle, investment fund manager 3iQ Corp.has been given the green light to launch one of the first bitcoin funds for retail investors. [...]

Byline: MEGAN DEVLIN Lead The Ontario Securities Commission has ordered Caldwell Investment Management Ltd. to pay $1.8-million for breaking its obligation to clients over a four-year period, in the regulator's [...]

Byline: JAMES TURNER Former vice-chair of the Ontario Securities Commission There has been some criticism recently of the Ontario Securities Commission's use of no-contest settlements. It has been suggested that [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- The Ontario Securities Commission is asking for people to contact the provincial regulator if they've been approached by representatives of BitConnect or its affiliates, [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]The Canadian Press The Ontario Securities Commission is holding a hearing on Wednesday at the request of a Hudson's Bay Co. activist investor to review a Toronto Stock Exchange [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]The Canadian Press The Ontario Securities Commission is seeking a suspension of trading in two alternative trading venues run by Omega Securities Inc. for failure to comply with market [...]

Byline: ALEXANDRA POSADZKI; Staff Emerging technologies have given securities commissions new tools to help them detect white-collar crime, but regulators say they have also created additional hurdles for them as [...]

Byline: JANET McFARLAND The Ontario Securities Commission has appointed former Difference Capital Financial Inc. executive Jeff Kehoe as its new enforcement director, overseeing the regulator's high-profile division responsible for investigating [...]

Byline: PAUL WALDIE WEIZHEN TANG TRIAL TORONTO -- The fraud trial of Toronto businessman Weizhen Tang was already somewhat unusual, but the proceedings took a bizarre twist Monday when Mr. [...]

Byline: JANET McFARLAND JOE FENG DENG The Ontario Securities Commission has ordered Joe Feng Deng to pay $2.6-million in penalties after concluding he improperly raised $25-million from investors in Toronto's [...]

Byline: Janet McFarland BUSINESS TICKER / NORTH AMERICA / FINANCE The Ontario Securities Commission has ordered Jeffrey Pogachar and his wife Paola Lombardi to pay over $22-million in penalties after [...]