The Ontario Securities Commission announced last week that OSC Rule 91-506 Derivatives: Product Determination and OSC Rule 91-507 Trade Repositories and Derivatives Data Reporting have received Ministerial approval.

As we previously discussed, the final versions of the rules were published in November and came into force beginning on December 31, 2013. The implementation of some requirements, meanwhile, will be staggered over the next year.

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