About Us

The Canadian Capital Markets Association (CCMA) is a federally incorporated, not-for-profit organization, launched to identify, analyze and recommend ways to meet the challenges and opportunities facing Canadian and international capital markets. The current priority of the CCMA is institutional trade-date matching.

Mission

To enhance the competitiveness of Canada's capital markets through a forum of industry experts who provide leadership and direction to the investment community. The CCMA is focusing on the institutional marketplace, promoting efficient and timely trade-date matching among capital market participants. Previously, the CCMA worked to facilitate the Canadian securities industry’s overall preparedness to implement straight-through-processing (STP) strategies.

Mandate

• Created on August 9, 2000, the CCMA is the Canadian securities industry's forum to address changes occurring in global securities markets:
• Increased on-and off-exchange securities trading volumes and volatility due in part to the growth in on-line trading
• Significant growth in cross-border transactions, where the complexities of multiple market structures, currencies, languages, time zones, players, legal/regulatory/tax environments and demands for collateral lead to high transaction fail rates
• Longer hours of trading
• Increased systemic risk
• Consolidation of market players and, at the same time, new entrants
• Increased reliance on technology
• Increased regulatory oversight

Canada’s capital markets must be competitive internationally and be well positioned to move to a straight-through processing environment in tandem with global markets.