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Fraud is alive and well in Canada. It is thriving and fraudsters are innovating.

The licensing requirement applies both to businesses operating from physical locations and those operating online.

The 2017 federal budget announced a number of measures directed to the financial services sector, including plans to strengthen the bank resolution regime and the deposit insurance framework, . . .

This summer the federal Department of Finance released a discussion paper regarding the oversight framework for retail payment systems in Canada.

Growing societies and the expansion of economic activity required a more convenient means of facilitating transactions than bartering commodities.

Elizabeth Sale is a partner in Osler's Toronto office specializing in the regulation of financial institutions and service providers including banks, insurance companies, payment industry...

The draft SoP is open for comment until December 22, 2022, and describes the OSC's key priority initiatives, broken down into one of the following four strategic goals for the year:

On June 20, 2024, Bill C-69, the Budget Implementation Act, 2024 received royal assent. Among other things, Bill C-69 enacts the Consumer-Driven Banking Act...

Senior counsel Brigitte Goulard spoke with Canadian Lawyer following the federal government's introduction of the Consumer-Driven Banking Act (CBDA)...

This chapter provides an excellent overview of the rapidly developing area of law in Canada...

The Government of Canada's declaration of a public order emergency in February 2022 went away as quickly as the measures were enacted.

The federal government recently introduced Bill C-59, An Act to implement certain provisions of the fall economic statement tabled in Parliament on November 21, 2023...

On June 11, 2025, The Walt Disney Company ("Disney") and Universal Pictures ("Universal") filed a joint copyright infringement lawsuit against AI image generator Midjourney...

Neurotechnology has moved from the lab into everyday life. Devices such as EEG headsets, brain-computer interface wearables, and implantable technologies now generate vast amounts of neurodata...

President Trump issued an Executive Order imposing economic sanction on the initial coin offering ("ICO") by the Government of Venezuela, called the Petro Coin (the "Petro ICO").

Recent Ontario court decisions are reshaping how Canadian courts establish jurisdiction over foreign cryptocurrency platforms and service providers. When a crypto trading platform is accessible from Ontario but operates globally without a physical presence, can Canadian courts exercise authority over disputes involving Ontario residents?

On May 27, 2019, the Department of Finance issued draft legislation and explanatory notes relating to the Excise Tax Act that would add a "virtual payment instrument" to the definition of a financial instrument for GST/HST purposes.