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Updates for the week ending September 12, 2008

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CSA Staff Notice 33-313 - International Financial Reporting Standards and Registrants

The CSA is publishing CSA Staff Notice 33-313 International Financial Reporting Standards and Registrants to provide guidance to registrants about how the changeover to IFRS will apply to them. The Staff Notice is directed to registrants that are not members of the IIROC or the MFDA (non-SRO registrants). The IIROC and the MFDA will be putting out their own guidance on IFRS for their members. Non-SRO registrants that hold or have access to client assets will be required to changeover to IFRS for financial years commencing on or after January 1, 2011. Staff is considering whether non-SRO registrants that do not hold or have access to client assets will be required to changeover to IFRS and what the appropriate implementation date for that changeover would be.
BCN 2008/42 - Advance Notice of Amendments to National Instrument 21-101 Marketplace Operation and National Instrument 23-101 Trading Rule

This notice announces the CSA's adoption of amendments to among other things, create a definition of best execution and impose a best execution obligation that requires dealers and advisers to use reasonable efforts to achieve best execution. The amendments come into force on September 12, 2008.

Capital Ideas 2008 (link no longer operational)

An open dialogue on challenges facing investors in the 21st century. What can the securities system do to help investors meet those challenges?