Canada grapples on the border. (M & A, supplement to Euromoney corporate finance – July 1986)

CANADA GRAPPLES ON THE BORDER The emerging trend towards trans-border M&As has regulators everywhere concerned about their wide implications. While others ponder future difficulties, policing off-shore trading is already an everyday concern for the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC).

CANADA GRAPPLES ON THE BORDER The emerging trend towards trans-border M&As has regulators everywhere concerned about their wide implications. While others ponder future difficulties, policing off-shore trading is already an everyday concern for the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC).

“Trans-border markets are the most significatn focus of securities regulations today,” commented OSC chairman Stanley Beck. “The Toronto Stock Exchange, like US exchanges, has had real problems tracking down insider trading when it takes place offshore.”

The buoyant Canadian M&A scene features a high degree of US trading in Canadian stocks.

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