Québec Bourse hosted last September 28, its September event at l’Espace CDPQ at Place Ville-Marie. The topic adressed by the panel was the equity trading environmemnt in Canada and has generated a high level of interest. The two panelists Daniel Bisaillon et Éric Fafard, in front of a full room, were very skilful in demystifying…
Québec Bourse was invited by the Toronto and TSX Venture Stock Exchanges to close last Wednesday’s trading session. With this initiative, Toronto and TSX Venture Exchanges wanted, amongst other things, to celebrate important milestones for Québec based clients and partners. Québec Bourse launches its fall programm with its September 28th 2016 event. To view the…
In a panel format, we will talk discuss the Canadian equity trading environment. Various stock exchanges, Multiple trading platforms. What to expect gonig into 2017? Should we be concerned? Come listen two experts, Daniel Bisaillon, Head Trader, Equity Market, CDPQ and Éric Fafard, Managing Director, Institutional Equity Trading, GMP Securities who will share their perspective…
Québec Bourse has provided last Julty 15th, its comments with respect to the TSX request for comments see our June 9th, 2016 article). Québec Bourse agrees with the basic principle that it is important to create an environment that provides investors with easy access to material information. However, it is as important to avoid imposing…
The CSA has published its three-year business plan for the period April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2019. The CSA business plan outlines 18 priorities together with actipn plans in the following areas: investor protection; fair and efficient markets; enforcement effectiveness; information technology From the 18 priorities, we note amongst others (using the same numerotation…
Public Listing: The weak link in Québec’s corporate finance ecosystem. A working group composed of approximatly thirty experts and corporate finance professionals has studied this question and proposed recommendations to rebuild an echosystem more favorable to initial public offering in Québec. Review of the current situation shows that the public finance echosystem has substancially and…
Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) has recently published proposed amendments to its TSX Company Manual. TSX will i) introduce website disclosure requirements for listed issuers; and ii) amend the disclosure requirements regarding security based compensation arrangements. The amendments are subject to the Ontario Securities Commission approval. For anyone wishing to provide comments, comments should be submitted…
Québec Bourse has now reached the 60 members level, during the first phase of its membership campaign. Québec Bourse has, as of today, 64 members, including public companies of multiple sectors and different sizes as well as key participants in the Québec financial ecosystem. The success of this first phase of the recruitment campaign confirms…
The AMF is creating a mining advisory committee. The mandate of the committee is to serve as a forum to discuss concerns of mining sector participants related, in particukar, to financing and continuous disclosure and Regulation 43-101. The committee will be comprised of 5 to 10 external membres The period for submitting candidancy is open until…
An event organized by CIRI Québec and Québec Bourse Several recent large private placements have been donme with the participatin of large Québec institutional investors. Is this an emerging trend? What are the key issues? Who benefiits and how?- Afresh look at this segmentof the capital markets. Four speakers will share their insights with us….
