Canadian Securities Administrators

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA; French: Autorités canadiennes en valeurs mobilières, ACVM) is an umbrella organization of Canada's provincial and territorial securities regulators whose objective is to improve, coordinate, and harmonize regulation of the Canadian capital markets.

Canadian Securities Administrators
IndustrySecurities
HeadquartersCSA Secretariat: Tour de la Bourse, 800 Square Victoria, Montreal, QC
Area served
Canada
Services
  • National Registration Database (NRD)
  • System for Electronic Disclosure by Insiders (SEDI)
  • System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR)
Websitesecurities-administrators.ca

The CSA's national systems include the National Registration Database (NRD), a web-based database that allows security dealers and investment advisors to file registration forms electronically; the System for Electronic Disclosure by Insiders (SEDI), an online, browser-based service for the filing and viewing of insider trading reports; and the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR), a publicly-accessible database that contains all the required non-confidential filings related to publicly-traded Canadian companies.

The CSA serves a regulatory function comparable to that of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in the United States.

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