Canada plans to merge investment regulators into one agency

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Move aims to address years of complaints about the overlapping roles and high costs

They also plan to merge two existing investor protection funds into a new one that’s independent of the expanded regulatory body.

IIROC oversees about 175 firms, including full-service investment dealers such as BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. and RBC Dominion Securities Inc., while the MFDA supervises about 90 mutual fund dealers, such as CIBC Securities Inc. and National Bank Investments Inc. Some financial firms are forced to be members of both agencies because their employees hold different licences for selling investment products.

In late 2019, the CSA began studying the existing framework. It created a working committee to determine the structure of the new organization and oversee the integration of the two groups. The review prompted both the MFDA and IIROC to publish their own proposals.

 

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