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At last week's FSxT Connect: Regulatory Pulse event, Leslie Byberg, Executive Vice President, Strategic Regulation at the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC)...

In 2017, 235 initial coin offerings (ICOs) raised almost US$3.7 billion dollars, an increase of 3700% from 2016.

Join us early on May 5th at BLG's Toronto office, as a panel of industry and legal experts discuss innovations and issues as they relate to the rapidly evolving FinTech industry.

Entities dealing in "virtual currencies", money services businesses (MSBs) and other reporting entities (REs) to the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada...

There is currently keen interest amongst tech companies, investors, and research institutes in both artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies.

Social media depends on digital technology, and the Canadian government has begun a review of Canada's Copyright Act and provided an opportunity for public comment.

In a recent decision in Lochan v Binance Holdings Limited, the Court of Appeal for Ontario upheld a Superior Court decision declining to stay a proposed class action in favour of arbitration...

On October 12, 2023, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) and the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) published Staff...

Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Dash are digital assets which use which use cryptographic techniques to verify the transfer of assets and control the creation of additional units of the crypto currency.

The Supreme Court of British Columbia (BCSC) recently released judgment in Ding v. GSV Futures Inc., 2022 BCSC 1921, which offers a useful precedent for bitcoin and other cryptocurrency mining agreements, ...

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Yesterday, the Government of Canada unveiled its first and hotly anticipated budget (the "Budget"). Included in the Budget are plans to pass legislation to regulate fiat-backed stablecoins.

As we have previously written, financial regulators throughout the world continue to grapple with issues surrounding crypto assets and how best to regulate their distribution to investors.

Are fraudsters going to be the next group to lose their jobs to Generative AI ("AI")?

As if the current international political situation that faces Canada is not enough to deal with, Canadians also need to be more vigilant than ever to protect themselves from online cryptocurrency scams.

On September 23, 2021, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) provided detailed guidance directed at the marketing practices...

This fall, the Canadian Securities Administrators ("CSA") released CSA Staff Notice 21-333 Crypto Asset Trading Platforms: Terms and Conditions for Trading Value-referenced Crypto Assets...