CSTO delivers national securities regulator transition plan
The Canadian Securities Transition Office today announced the release of its Transition Plan for the Canadian Securities Regulatory Authority. The Transition Plan provides a roadmap for establishing the CSRA and sets out a vision for the Authority's regulatory approach. Issues considered by the Transition Plan include governance, organization design, business processes and implementation planning.
According to the Transition Office, the next step in the transition will involve the signing of development agreements between the participating provinces and territories and the federal government by September 2010. Under the development agreements, the provinces and territories would assign regulatory and ministry staff to share expertise in establishing the CSRA. Work under the development agreements would be followed by memoranda of understanding between the participating provinces and territories and the federal government to address various matters of interest. These MOUs would be concluded by July 1, 2011. A launch date for the CSRA, meanwhile, has been established as July 1, 2012.
For more information on the move towards a national securities regulator, see our post of June 8, 2010.
