Today the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published CSA Staff Notice 21-317 Next Steps in Implementation of a Plan to Enhance Regulation of the Fixed Income Market, which provides an update on various elements of the CSA’s fixed income regulation plan.
“The objectives of the CSA’s fixed income regulation plan are to improve market integrity, facilitate more informed decision-making among market participants and evaluate access to the fixed income market. Increasing transparency in the corporate debt market is a key element of this plan, and the CSA is working with the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) to achieve this goal,” said Louis Morisset, Chair of the CSA and President and CEO of the Autorité des marchés financiers.
News wire – April 21, 2016.