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On January 29, 2025, the Financial Markets Administrative Tribunal (the TMF) found that Ms. Alteon Senat, a representative of a mutual fund dealer and representative in insurance of persons, breached multiple provisions of the Securities Act (the QSA)
Earlier this year, the Ontario Capital Markets Tribunal (the Tribunal), accepted a joint settlement agreement[1] submitted by Staff of the Ontario Securities Commission (Staff) and defendant Raymond Pomroy (Pomroy), who had been accused of
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In Sharp v. Autorité des marchés financiers, 2023 SCC 29, the Supreme Court of Canada recognized the transnational nature of modern securities regulation in holding there was a “real and substantial connection” between alleged perpetrators of a “pump-and-dump”