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On May 30, the Mercado Integrado Latinoamericano (MILA) an integrated stock exchange of three Latin American countries (Chile, Colombia and Peru), will be launched. It is a development that the TMX Group, which announced a merger in February with the London Stock Exchange (LSE), and its regulators should heed, in that it shows how to create real value for companies and investors when merging exchanges.

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Howard Davies, the chairman of the U.K. Financial Services Authority, once said in a speech, “Unless you have a clear idea of why you regulate, then you run serious risks of being deflected into unprofitable and unjustifiable areas.” Unfortunately, the OSC is ignoring this philosophy, and is taking a “regulation everywhere” approach to Canadian capital markets.


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One has to wonder how serious the Crawford Committee is about this recommendation. Its report contains no cost-benefit analysis on the numerous recommendations in their report which, if implemented, would lead to a new explosion in regulatory and compliance costs.