CSA Proposals Require Enhanced Corporate Debt Trade Reporting And Transparency By 2017

Last week, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published for comment Proposals that would require trade information for all corporate debt securities executed by dealers to be made publicly available, subject to delayed dissemination and volume caps, by the end of 2017. The CSA Proposals aim to enhance the regulation and transparency of the Canadian fixed income market, partly in response to certain limitations highlighted in a Report on "The Canadian Fixed Income Market 2014" published earlier this year by the Ontario Securities Commission which suggested that retail investors in corporate fixed income securities have less access to market information than institutional investors.