Neil Stewart casts an expert eye over this year's CIRI offering.
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More highlights from Canada's annual IR conference.
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As we face the fourth consecutive year of declining commodity prices, we continue to ask ourselves, have we reached the bottom yet? As the mining industry is historically cyclical, we have been bracing ourselves for the eventual rebound in the markets.
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The Ontario Securities Act was recently amended to broaden the scope of insider trading liability and certain record-keeping requirements. As of June 4, 2015, restrictions against insider trading or tipping will apply generally to "issuers" whose securities are publicly traded, and not just "reporting issuers."
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First time entrepreneurs may be tempted to ask a VC to sign a non-disclosure agreement before pitching them or sending information to them. Here are four reasons why the investor won't sign the NDA, and why the request may harm your chances to secure funding.
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The Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG) recently released its much anticipated policy paper on "proxy access", a term which refers to shareholders' conceptual right to nominate directors and have those nominees placed on management's ballot. The CCGG takes the position that this right, which is supplemental to a shareholders right to elect directors, "is an essential component of shareholder democracy".
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With the popularity of crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, Indiegogo and Rockethub in recent years, crowdfunding has become an increasingly attractive way for startups and smaller private companies to raise capital.
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On June 1, 2015, the federal government declared into force the Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act. This Act is the long-promised legislation to establish mandatory reporting standards for payments that Canadian extractive companies make to governments worldwide (commonly known as "publish what you pay" standards).
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Canada's IROs get together to talk oil and politics.
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Canadian mining exploration issuers now have a new and efficient way to access Latin American capital markets. On May 5, 2015, the Santiago Stock Exchange, Venture ("Santiago Venture Exchange") commenced operations. This new exchange is a culmination of an initiative by the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSXV") and the Santiago Stock Exchange to streamline dual listing procedures and provide TSXV-listed companies with access to public venture capital markets in both Chile and Canada.
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Following a series of thought-leadership interviews, the Reporting 2025 analysis highlights that new data technology will lead to greater transparency with reporting moving fully into the digital realm and occurring in real-time instead of annually. This is one of the many new insights into the future of sustainability reporting uncovered in this release.
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Effective June 30, 2015, the Canadian Securities Administrators are adopting
regulatory amendments
that reduce the continuous
disclosure burden of venture issuers.
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The Forum for US Securities Lawyers in London recently published an International Capital Markets Glossary, which has been published in an interactive PDF format. In this Glossary, you will find commonly used International Capital Markets terms and their definitions.
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