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Nova Scotia Securities Commission (NSSC) staff have been delivering presentations to several local high schools recently. Students attending these presentations are usually between 15 and 18 years of age, which means that they’re under the age of majority in Nova Scotia.
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We’re just over a week away from Nova Scotia Capital Markets 2026! Last week we reviewed the exciting panels and panelists we have lined up. This week we’re introducing you to the moderators that will oversee our panels and help our panelists dig down to the real meat of the topics being explored. Here are the moderators of our panel and their backgrounds.
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Nova Scotia Capital Markets 2026 is coming up later this month. In case you missed it in 2024, Nova Scotia Capital Markets is a bi-annual conference hosted and organized by the Nova Scotia Securities Commission that delivers insightful presentations and discussions on the latest trends, challenges, and developments within Nova Scotia capital markets. The panel discussions will be of interest to issuers, investors, market participants, academics, professionals, and regulators.
Our three featured panels this year include:
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Fraud Prevention Month may have just ended, but protecting yourself from investment fraud should be a year-round focus. Fraudsters and scam artists are constantly looking for investors with money to steal every day. On today, the most foolish of all days, don’t let a fraudster fool you into handing over your hard-earned-money to an investment scam.
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The principal mandate of the Nova Scotia Securities Commission (NSSC) is to protect Nova Scotia investors. One of the ways we do that is by issuing investor alerts and cautions. You can find all the alerts and cautions we’ve issued for the last nine years on our Investor Alert Database.
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Throughout Fraud Prevention Month we’ve been sharing blog posts, videos, reels, and other online content to educate investors about investment fraud to help them identify it and avoid it. To help Nova Scotians find and connect with fraud prevention resources this post collects links to and descriptions of several of those resources in one place.
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According to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, Canadians lost a reported $275 million to investment fraud in the first three-quarters of 2025. In Nova Scotia the reported losses to investment fraud were just over $2.5 million.
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A new take on pump and dumps, utilizing social media and messaging apps, is luring investors into some big-time losses. We’re talking about Ramp and Dump scams. If you use a messaging app like WhatsApp or Telegram or scroll though social media channels like Instagram or Facebook, you may have already seen or been pitched a Ramp and Dump scam.
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March is Fraud Prevention Month in Canada. Throughout the month, the Nova Scotia Securities Commission will be delivering fraud prevention content and presentations. Here are some of the presentations and content we have planned in March to help Nova Scotians recognize and avoid investment fraud.
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You may have been hearing a lot about Stablecoins, also known as Value-Referenced Crypto Assets (VRCAs), lately. Countries across the globe have been drafting legislation focusing on stablecoins, including here in Canada where they were included in the fall federal budget.
As rules, regulations, and legislation around VRCAs slowly take shape, what are the current securities laws that apply to them?