Enforcement Notice - IN THE MATTER OF Industrial Alliance Securities Inc. - Settlement Hearing Français
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Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) - General NewsOct 21, 2015, 11:45 ET
MONTRÉAL, Oct. 21, 2015 /CNW/ - A hearing has been scheduled before a Hearing Panel of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) to consider whether the Hearing Panel should accept a Settlement Agreement entered into between IIROC staff and Industrial Alliance Securities Inc. (IAS Inc.).
The Agreement concerns allegations that IAS Inc. failed to take reasonable measures to ensure that two of its representatives, and certain of its supervisors, possessed the required knowledge and understood the features and risks inherent in leveraged Exchange‑Traded Funds, and failed to intervene in respect of one of its representatives to ensure that trades executed by the latter in the accounts of two clients were within the bounds of good business practice.
The hearing is not open to the public, but will become open in the event that the panel accepts the agreement. If the Agreement is accepted, the Panel's decision and the Settlement Agreement will be made available at www.iiroc.ca.
Documents related to ongoing IIROC enforcement proceedings – including Reasons and Decisions of Hearing Panels – are posted on the IIROC website as they become available. Click here to search and access all IIROC enforcement documents.
Hearing Date: |
October 29, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. |
Location: |
Centre Mont-Royal |
2200 Mansfield Street |
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Montréal, Québec |
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IIROC is the national self-regulatory organization which oversees all investment dealers and trading activity on debt and equity marketplaces in Canada. Created in 2008 through the consolidation of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada and Market Regulation Services Inc., IIROC sets high quality regulatory and investment industry standards, protects investors and strengthens market integrity while maintaining efficient and competitive capital markets.
IIROC carries out its regulatory responsibilities through setting and enforcing rules regarding the proficiency, business and financial conduct of dealer firms and their registered employees and through setting and enforcing market integrity rules regarding trading activity on Canadian equity marketplaces.
IIROC investigates possible misconduct by its member firms and/or individual registrants. It can bring disciplinary proceedings which may result in penalties including fines, suspensions, permanent bars, expulsion from membership, or termination of rights and privileges for individuals and firms.
All information about disciplinary proceedings relating to current and former member firms is available in the Enforcement section of the IIROC website. Background information regarding the qualifications and disciplinary history, if any, of advisors currently employed by IIROC‑regulated firms is available free of charge through the IIROC AdvisorReport service. Information on how to make investment dealer, advisor or marketplace-related complaints is available by calling 1 877 442-4322.
SOURCE Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) - General News
Enforcement Contact: Claudyne Bienvenu, Vice-President, Québec, 514 878-2854, [email protected]; Media Contact: Karen Archer, Manager, Media Relations, 416 865-3046, [email protected]
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