The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) has announced that industry-wide tests of dealers' business continuity plans will be conducted on a bi-annual basis going forward.

The OSC announced yesterday that amendments to NI 23-103 Electronic Trading that impose requirements on participant dealers that provide direct electronic access have received Ministerial approval.

As we discussed in a post earlier this year, IIROC recently announced the approval and implementation of core elements of its Client Relationship Model project.

Late last month, IIROC proposed amendments to its Dealer Member Rules.

The IOSCO Research Department recently released a staff working paper that considers the emerging growth of crowdfunding.

The OSC announced today that it will expand on the types of Director decisions that it publishes online and in the OSC Bulletin to include uncontested cases of regulatory action with regards to the registration status of a registrant.

The Ontario Securities Commission announced last week that OSC Rule 91-506 Derivatives: Product Determination and OSC Rule 91-507 Trade Repositories and Derivatives Data Reporting have received Ministerial approval.

Shivalika Handa, a corporate finance advisor and leader of PwC Canada's technology transactions group, joins Mario Nigro in this podcast.

Ross Thomas is involved in midmarket lending and discusses what he has been seeing in the Mississauga-Etobicoke (Toronto-area) market, which is home to many industrial and logistics companies, during the pandemic.

Jennifer Chasson, President of Springbank Capital, joins Mario Nigro to discuss her M&A experiences in the lower midmarket space over the past two years.

Mario's guests today are Asim Qureshi and Karim Kanji. Their company, OneWorld Foods Inc., has risen in just a few short years from an idea to a supermarket success story ...

Daniel Lee of CIBC Capital Markets joins Mario to discuss the state of the midmarket tech sector after two years of pandemic-driven growth.

Mario Nigro is joined by Piyush Kunnapallil, CEO of Ti Foods, a GTA-based importer and distributor of Asian food brands.

Today's podcast takes us to British Columbia, where Erica McGuinness has built a sell-side advisory practice with one of Western Canada's leading firms, Sequeira Partners.

Workplace management issues, which have posed major business challenges in the pandemic period, show little sign of abating.

On November 16, 2010, Bill C-311, the Climate Change Accountability Act, was defeated in the Senate by a vote of 43-32 with no debate held.

Alberta's Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) announced that it will invest $27.2 million in six industrial efficiency projects in the province.

The media reported yesterday that the European Parliament has rejected an attempt to raise the costs of emitting greenhouse gases in a contentious 334-315 vote.

As part of an effort to reduce the U.S. federal deficit, the Democratic Party-controlled Senate is calling for the repeal of $2 billion in tax breaks for the five largest oil companies.

The CSA announced today that they are pushing back the date for the implementation of OTC derivatives trade reporting obligations.