Examples of OTC issuer in a sentence
Once an OTC issuer becomes an OTC reporting issuer under the OTC Rule, the OTC Rule will continue to apply to it for at least one year.
We will consider that an OTC issuer is carrying out promotional activities in a jurisdiction of Canada if it communicates from anywhere with persons in that jurisdiction, or communicates from a jurisdiction of Canada with persons anywhere, in a way that promotes, or reasonably could be expected to promote, the purchase or sale of its securities.
An OTC issuer may only issue securities for services to any of its directors, officers, or consultants if the conditions in this section are met and there is an available exemption from the prospectus requirements.
The Instrument defines “promotional activities.” For the purposes of the Instrument, we will consider generally that these activities include communications through an investment newsletter or other publication that promotes, or reasonably could be expected to promote, the purchase or sale of securities of the OTC issuer.
This provision applies only to an OTC issuer with a ticker-symbol date on or after the effective date of the Instrument in that jurisdiction.
Ceasing to be an OTC issuer and a reporting issuer in QuébecIn Québec, an OTC reporting issuer may cease to be an OTC issuer and a reporting issuer if pursuant to making an application for a decision to revoke its OTC reporting issuer status, it receives an order from the securities regulatory authority that it is no longer a reporting issuer.
New OTC issuersIf an OTC issuer has distributed a security to a resident of a jurisdiction of Canada before the ticker-symbol date, it will be a reporting issuer under paragraph 3(c) of the Instrument if the security distributed is of the class of securities that became the issuer’s OTC-quoted securities.
A typical scenario involves unscrupulous promoters who, through deceptive means, gain control of an OTC issuer, then promote it by making misleading disclosure.
Ceasing to be an OTC issuer but remaining a reporting issuerAn OTC reporting issuer that ceases to be an OTC reporting issuer under the Instrument continues to be a reporting issuer under securities legislation if it meets the definition of reporting issuer in securities legislation.
A primary indicator of risk is the deposit of shares of OTC issuers by insiders, control persons, founders and persons who conduct or cause to be conducted investor relations activities relating to the OTC issuer (closely-related persons).