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The Alberta Personal Property Registry (the "PPR") has recently advised of a change with respect to PPR registrations in Alberta.

Nova Scotia introduced amendments to its Securities Act intended to further facilitate the harmonization of derivatives regulation across Canada.

Of particular interest in this latest report, the regulators note that for the fiscal years 2018 and 2019, about 7% of investment-related complaints were settled for less than OBSI recommendations.

In December 2005, the Ontario government introduced a bill to modernize the laws governing the transfer of securities in Ontario.

Recently, we reported on a decision of Perell J. on a motion to approve a partial class action settlement.

Shearman & Sterling advised BNP Paribas, J.P. Morgan, National Bank of Canada Financial Markets and TD Securities, as joint book-running managers, and BMO Capital Markets, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Scotiabank, as co-managers.

The Ontario Securities Commission today released its draft statement of priorities for the upcoming year, which sets out the actions the OSC intends to take during fiscal 2013-2014.

On February 25, the OSC released for comment a draft of its 2011-2012 Statement of Priorities.

On February 1, 2008, Multilateral Instrument 61-101 Protection of Minority Shareholders in Special Transactions became effective, replacing OSC Rule 61-501 and Québec’s Regulation Q-27. Both rules contained requirements for enhanced disclosure, independent valuations and majority of minority security holder approvals for specified types of transactions, specifically insider bids, issuer bids, business combinations and related party transactions.

The Supreme Court of Canada issued a trilogy of decisions involving the application of Quebec’s Consumer Protection Act fee disclosure rules to credit card agreements.

The Authority has indicated that it is reconsidering its approach as a result of industry feedback, and intends to publish a new proposed amendment to the QDR later this year.

On December 5th, Canadian regulators participating in the Cooperative Capital Markets Regulatory System provided an update in respect of the preparation of initial regulations to be enacted under the proposed provincial Capital Markets Act (PCMA).

The SEC has taken several steps to help issuers comply more cost-effectively with the internal control rules under section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

On November 3, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released a proposal to reward individuals that provide information that leads to successful SEC enforcement action in which monetary sanctions total more than $1 million.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that, beginning today (May 12, 2005), it will publish on the EDGAR system (which is available on the SEC’s website) both the comment letters that SEC staff issues (as a result of its review of public company filings) and company responses.

The SEC announced on May 17, 2006 that it plans to take several steps to improve the implementation of the internal control rules under section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

The Canada Small Business Financing Program was introduced over 40 years ago to provide small and medium sized businesses greater access to financing.

Deficits in defined benefit pension plans will continue to be an issue in 2013.