B.C. Securities Commission expands criminal investigation team with regulatory fee increase

The B.C. Securities Commission will increase revenues by an estimated $7.6 million to boost enforcement and support and regulate new financial technologies such as crypto currency.
The revenue increase, estimated at 16 per cent of the BCSC’s annual budget, will come from fee increases levied on financial advisors and regulatory filings for activities used to raise money in B.C.’s public and private capital markets.
The fee increases — the first since 1994 — will go into e