Effective
Jul 5, 2000
Canada’s federal AML/CFT statute establishes FINTRAC and imposes registration, reporting, identity-verification, recordkeeping, and risk-based compliance duties. It expressly...
Canada Crypto Regulation
Explore Canada’s crypto laws, including exchange registration, securities rules, taxes, AML compliance, and digital asset regulation.
Effective
Jun 12, 2002
Canada’s core AML/ATF regulations prescribe transaction reporting, recordkeeping, identity verification and compliance-program rules, including CAD 10,000 virtual-currency reporting...
Effective
May 18, 2019
Canada’s Excise Tax Act treats qualifying virtual payment instruments as financial instruments for GST/HST and sets rules for...
Effective
Jun 1, 2020
Canada’s federal AML/CFT framework requires domestic and qualifying foreign businesses dealing in virtual currency to register with FINTRAC...
Effective
Mar 29, 2021
Canada’s CSA regime applies securities-law registration and PRU expectations to crypto asset trading platforms, including custody, leverage and...
Effective
Jun 1, 2021
Canada’s AML/CFT regime requires reporting entities to report receipt of virtual currency worth CAD 10,000 or more, including...
Effective
Jun 1, 2021
Canada’s travel rule requires covered financial entities and money services businesses to transmit prescribed originator and beneficiary information...
Effective
Jul 6, 2023
Canadian CSA staff guidance for public crypto asset funds, covering NI 81-102, custody, valuation, liquidity, staking, KYC/KYP and...
Effective
Jul 16, 2025
Canada’s CSA amendments to NI 81-102 set investment, eligibility and custody rules for reporting issuer investment funds with...
Partially effective
Sep 8, 2025
Canada’s RPAA creates a Bank of Canada registration and supervision regime for covered payment service providers, including operational-risk,...
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