ARTICLE · 27 APRIL 2017

The OSC's FinTech Hackathon: A Hint Of What's To Come?

Stikeman Elliott LLP

As part of the Ontario Securities Commission's "OSC LaunchPad" initiative, more than 120 members of the FinTech community were brought together in late 2016 to find solutions to capital markets...

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As part of the Ontario Securities Commission's "OSC LaunchPad" initiative, more than 120 members of the FinTech community were brought together in late 2016 to find solutions to capital markets regulatory problems. The results of this effort are described in the Ontario Securities Commission's recent publication "OSC RegHackTO: Insights from Canada's first regulatory hackathon". "RegHackTO", the first hackathon by a Canadian securities regulator, aimed at engaging with the FinTech community to better understand how technology could assist in the modernization efforts of the OSC and the financial services sector more broadly.

What is a "Hackathon"?

A hackathon is a design competition in which computer programmers and software developers collaborate on innovative technology projects. Culminating with competitors pitching solutions to a panel of judges, the OSC's hackathon focused on four key problem areas:

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