Allan Goodman, Hari Marcovici and Michael Partridge recently co-authored, "Bitcoin, the OSC and the Retail Asset Management Market", published in The Lawyer's Daily, November 29, 2019.
Excerpt:
A panel of the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has reversed a decision of the director of the Investment Funds & Structured Products Branch of the Commission (the director) that denied the issuance of a receipt for a final prospectus of the Bitcoin Fund (the fund). The decision will allow the fund to be listed for trading on major Canadian stock exchanges.
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