Regulatory round up, Part 1

ACC Ontario x Blakes National Regulatory Insights

With constantly evolving regulations over the past year, doing business in the financial services industry has become increasingly tricky to navigate. Join us for the need-to-know highlights and get your questions answered by our Blakes team and in-house counsel, Sandy Stephens, VP & Chief Compliance Officer at Alterna Bank. 

These sessions will be short, lunch time discussions of the latest regulatory updates, with short question and answer periods. Please feel free to register for any or all that would be relevant to you. 

Regulatory round up, Part 1: 

Retail Payments Activity Act (RPAA) 

• Overview of requirements / impact of changes  
• Update on status and next steps  

Buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) products 

• What is it? / Is there regulation? 
• Usage / prevalence / concerns 

High-cost credit regulations 

• Overview of existing frameworks/requirements  
• Is more regulation coming?