Banking on Cannabis (The Impact of Legalization on the Banking Industry)

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Learn how to navigate the law to avoid potentially costly ramifications and complex lawsuits. Many Canadian banks operate internationally, with increasingly integrated operations. With the legalization of cannabis, they face an increasingly complex regulatory and legal web.

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1.5 Hours

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Learn how to navigate the law to avoid potentially costly ramifications and complex lawsuits. Many Canadian banks operate internationally, with increasingly integrated operations. With the legalization of cannabis, they face an increasingly complex regulatory and legal web.

As a legal professional, or someone involved in banking or the cannabis industry, you must get prepared to competently navigate the new legal and regulatory landscape given the impact to both domestic and foreign banking operations and transactions. A clear understanding of the intersecting regimes is essential to prevent violations and unintended foreign lawsuits.

Join leading Canadian & US banking law experts in this 90-minute OsgoodePD online webinar for essential guidance and best practices to effectively deal with these compounded challenges and to protect your clients’ – and your own – interests.

You’ll get an overview of the new regime, including a succinct overview of the ground rules and how to navigate the risky junctions of asymmetrical legal requirements.

 

What You’ll Learn:

  • How does cannabis legalization affect Canadian banking?
  • Criminal money laundering prohibitions, includes both Canadian and US perspectives and the solution of “ring fencing”
  • Canadian anti-money laundering (AML) requirements, monitoring and reporting guidance
  • Best practices for dealing with potentially problematic connections
  • Banks as corporate citizens providing services for clients in the cannabis industry, from commercial to retail banking clients and everything in between
  • Criminal/controlled substances prohibitions, includes both Canadian and US perspectives and the current state of conflict
  • Troubleshooting, trends and issues to watch out for

 

Who Should Attend:

  • Banking professionals with commercial or retail clients in the cannabis industry
  • Lawyers, advisors, paralegals and law clerks who advise banking clients or investors with an interest in the cannabis industry
  • In-house lawyers and professionals at companies engaged in the cannabis industry
  • Anyone interested in entering the cannabis market and who has an interest or business or does banking in the US
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    1 Dundas Street West, Toronto

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