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Gowling WLG
In his 1869 novel War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy famously wrote: "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." How aptly this aphorism applies to Canada's multi-year journey...
Cassels
Earlier this year, the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington rendered a default judgment...
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Even during the tight financing conditions of 2023, Vancouver-based fintech startup Hiive had considerable interest for its first fundraising that closed last fall...
Bennett Jones LLP
As we highlighted in our last quarterly Fintech update in 2023, a new regulatory framework under the Retail Payments Activities Act (RPAA) will soon affect all retail payment service providers...
Bennett Jones LLP
As we highlighted in our Quarterly Fintech Update in 2023, a significant development in the Canadian retail payments industry is forthcoming within this year—namely...
Cassels
On March 28, 2024, Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange, was sentenced to 25 years in US federal prison for stealing $8 billion from customers...
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Although cryptocurrencies have been widely available for around 15 years — if one counts from the introduction of bitcoin — the industry...
Gowling WLG
A timeline of the development of open banking in Canada
DLA Piper
On February 15, 2024, the Canadian Securities Administrators (the "CSA") published its Systemic Risk Committee's (the "Committee") 2023 Annual Report on Capital Markets (the "Report").
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
On Jan. 18, 2024, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published for comment CSA Notice and Request for Comment – Proposed Amendments to National Instrument 81-102...
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
The Systemic Risk Committee (SRC) of the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) allows staff to review and monitor systemic and emerging risks in the Canadian capital markets.
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
During the 2017 and 2018 initial coin offering (ICO) boom, the concept of tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs) became popularized. Many innovators saw the potential to disintermediate...
DLA Piper
On February 14, 2024, The Bank of Canada (the "Bank") released How to complete a registration application: A step-by-step guide (the "Step-by-Step Guide").
Rotfleisch & Samulovitch P.C.
Canadian cryptocurrency investors and traders have lost millions of dollars' worth of crypto investments and crypto inventory as a result of fraud by both large and small crypto exchanges and platforms.
Mills & Mills
You have worked hard for years to save up enough money to buy your dream home.
Lawson Lundell LLP
On February 2, 2024, the BC Supreme Court dismissed a petition by Conifex Timber Inc. challenging the validity of a regulation that effectively relieved BC Hydro of its obligation...
Gowling WLG
As we move into 2024, Gowling WLG's Financial Services and Technology (FSxT) Group shares its take on key legal and regulatory developments expected to affect the Canadian market this year...
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
On January 31, 2024, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions ("OSFI") published the final Integrity and Security Guideline.
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
In Lochan v. Binance Holdings Limited (Binance), the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Court) dismissed a motion to stay a proposed class action in favour of arbitration. In making its decision...
WeirFoulds LLP
Canadian and American regulators have made concerted efforts in the last year to definitively demonstrate that cryptocurrencies are under their securities purview...
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