Canada: Finance and Banking

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Finance law and banking law thought leadership, articles, podcasts, videos and webinars from expert sources across the legal world. Explore insights covering topics such as capital adequacy, BASEL, acquisition finance, debt capital markets, fund finance, islamic finance, securitization and structured finance.
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Moms Are Here To Help (Podcast)
The Gap We're Solving: This podcast addresses a dual challenge in today's financial landscape. For next-generation investors, it provides warm, trusted guidance to help them set and achieve their goals—and find the right financial service provider to support their efforts. For financial service providers, it's a call to evolve: adapting their services and tools to meet the needs of younger investors, rather than simply applying the same approaches used with the baby boom generation.
Canada Finance
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Babin Bessner Spry LLP
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Prediction Markets: Evolving Regulation In Canada
Surging trading volumes, rapid regulatory change and well-publicized controversies in respect of United States prediction markets have brought new prominence to the regulation of prediction markets. Until this year, there had been no formal guidance provided for businesses looking to offer trading in prediction market contracts (also referred to as “event contracts”) in Canada in accordance with existing regulatory frameworks, and, in particular, there has been significant uncertainty concerning the application of securities law restrictions to the trading of event contracts.
Canada Finance
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Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
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Powering Intelligence: Secured Lending In The AI Infrastructure Economy
As artificial intelligence adoption surges across Canadian enterprises—from 6.1% to 19.2% in just two years—the infrastructure demands are creating unprecedented opportunities in AI data centre development. Meta's $13-billion Alberta facility signals Canada's emergence as a major player, but what legal and commercial complexities must lenders, sponsors and investors navigate in this capital-intensive asset class?
Canada Finance
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Aird & Berlis LLP
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Debt Capital Markets

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Gill V. The King -Transferring Property Among Family Members, When You’re In Debt To CRA? That Triggers Secondary Tax Liability (Because It Appears To Be A Tax Dodge)
Section 160 of the Income Tax Act (ITA) is one of the most potent collection tools available to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). While most tax liabilities are personal to the individual who earned the income, section 160 creates a form of “derivative” or secondary liability.
Canada Tax
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Rotfleisch & Samulovitch P.C.
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Case Study: How We Helped A Client Clear An Old CRA Court Judgment From Their Credit Report
Our tax law firm recently closed a matter in which a client came to us after discovering that a CRA tax debt believed to be long settled was still showing up as an active court judgment on the client’s credit report. The judgment was standing in the way of a financing transaction, and the client needed documented proof, quickly, that the underlying tax debt had actually been paid.
Canada Tax
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Rotfleisch & Samulovitch P.C.
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Charges, Mortgages, Indemnities

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"Bankability" In Colocation Agreements: The Holy Grail
As data centre investment accelerates, lenders increasingly scrutinize customer contracts as the primary revenue-generating assets that underpin project financing. This analysis examines the specific contractual provisions that determine whether a data centre project can secure third-party financing on acceptable terms, from termination rights and indexation mechanisms to change of control clauses and subordination agreements.
Canada Finance
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Gowling WLG
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Financial Services

Podcast
Moms Are Here To Help (Podcast)
The Gap We're Solving: This podcast addresses a dual challenge in today's financial landscape. For next-generation investors, it provides warm, trusted guidance to help them set and achieve their goals—and find the right financial service provider to support their efforts. For financial service providers, it's a call to evolve: adapting their services and tools to meet the needs of younger investors, rather than simply applying the same approaches used with the baby boom generation.
Canada Finance
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Babin Bessner Spry LLP
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Who Bears The Loss Among Innocent Parties After Payment Fraud? Saskatchewan Court Of Appeal Provides Some Clarity
Canadian courts are increasingly asked to allocate fraud losses between innocent parties—victims and their financial institutions. The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal's decision in Honeybadger Enterprises Ltd. v. Bue provides crucial clarity on common law principles governing liability allocation, establishing that parties whose conduct involves affirmative acts facilitating fraud will bear the loss, while financial institutions owe no duty to police transactions or warn customers absent contractual obli
Canada Criminal
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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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