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Government Investigations in Singapore 2025
We have contributed the Singapore chapter of Getting the Deal Through, Government Investigations 2025.
Canada | Publication | March 18, 2021
The Capital Markets Modernization Taskforce was established in February 2020 and mandated to make recommendations to modernize Ontario’s capital markets regulation. An initial report was published in July 2020 for consultation and received significant feedback. A product of input from over 110 stakeholders, the taskforce released its final report on January 22, 2021.
In part 4 of this series, we cover recommendations to the securities law enforcement regime. These recommendations are designed to enhance investor protection and better position the OSC to take action against offenders.
The taskforce makes a number of recommendations to modernize its enforcement regime, including:
The taskforce recommends a number of enhancements to ensure the OSC is able to enforce securities laws, including:
The taskforce recommends enhancing the rights of those subject to OSC investigation or examination and ensuring proportionality by:
In Part 5 of this series we will discuss the taskforce’s recommendations to modernize how financial firms, capital markets intermediaries and other market participants operate.
The taskforce’s final report can be accessed here: https://www.ontario.ca/document/capital-markets-modernization-taskforce-final-report-january-2021
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We have contributed the Singapore chapter of Getting the Deal Through, Government Investigations 2025.
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The private credit market and direct lending have grown and diversified immensely in the past decade, offering alternative sources and terms of debt compared to those historically provided by the syndicated leveraged loan and public issuance markets. Consequently, they are fast becoming pivotal components in the capital ecosystem, so much so that the Bank of England consider that the private credit market is currently responsible for approximately $1.8 trillion of debt issuance, which is four times its size in 2015. This growth has been particularly pronounced in Europe and the US but there has also been significant activity in Asia.
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The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Regulation, commonly referred to as the AI Act, is expected to come into force during the summer of 2024 (the AI Act). The AI Act will be the first comprehensive legal framework for the use and development of artificial intelligence (AI), and is intended to ensure that AI systems developed and used in the EU are safe, transparent, traceable, non-discriminatory and environmentally friendly.
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