Market Opens

Miyo Yamashita, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation, and her team joined John McKenzie, Chief Executive Officer, TMX Group, to celebrate the 16th annual Ride to Conquer Cancer and open the market. The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation is Canada's largest and leading cancer charity, dedicated to raising funds for Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, one of the world's top five cancer research centres known for its game-changing scientific achievements and exceptional patient treatment and care. Through philanthropy, events, our world-leading home lottery program, and commercialization initiatives, we make possible the critical funding required to accelerate cancer research, education, and clinical care -- benefitting patients at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, throughout Canada and the world.

Yvette Lokker, President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI), and conference delegates joined Karoline Hunter, Head, Company Services and Business Transformation, Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), to open the market and celebrate CIRI’s 2023 Annual Conference. CIRI's Annual Conference is the second-largest gathering of IR practitioners in the world. Over three days of programming, the Conference brings together industry leaders and IR experts that offer their views and advice during numerous breakout sessions, panel discussions and presentations.

Representatives from TMX Group and Clearstream Banking S.A. (Clearstream), joined Steve Everett, Head, Business Strategy and Innovation, CDS, to close the market and celebrate the announcement of plans to launch a new, automated Canadian Collateral Management Service, or CCMS. Together, TMX Group and Clearstream are working to leverage the combined strength of their complementary services to develop and deliver the CCMS, which will include the introduction of Canada's first domestic triparty repo capability.

Representatives of the SFCanada 2023 Conference joined Neil Carnell, Managing Director, Trust, Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), to open the market and celebrate Structured Finance Canada’s 2023 conference. With more than 370 member institutions comprised of accounting firms, broker/dealers, diversified financial intermediaries, investors, issuers, IT vendors, law firms, mortgage insurers, other small financial institutions, rating agencies, servicers and trustees, SFA is the leading voice for the securitization industry. SFA is focused on helping grow the real economy and improving the lives of individuals, families, businesses, and communities across the nation; helping make credit more affordable and available to people who need it to finance some of life’s biggest goals — education, car purchases, starting a business, buying a home — or reduce their debt through consolidation loans; safeguarding essential protections for consumers and the financial system; facilitating valuable dialogue among the financial services market, its practitioners, policymakers and the broader public; and recognizing that all finance entails risk, but it should not involve recklessness.