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OSC publishes 2025 Report on Canadian OTC Derivatives
The Ontario Securities Commission published its Canadian OTC Derivatives 2025 Annual Report, which gathers publicly available data to summarize key features of Canada’s OTC derivatives markets in 2025. The report highlights that the market increased 12.2 per cent year-over-year to $121 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2025, up from CAD $108 trillion in 2024, and notes that Canada’s share of the global OTC derivatives market was 9.2 per cent as of June 2025. It also includes new sections on commodities and Ontario-specific analysis, alongside metrics on turnover and risk, while noting that rule amendments and compliance reviews improved data quality for outstanding positions, average trade size, and new transaction counts.
OSC
May 21, 2026
For Immediate Release
TORONTO – The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) today published its Canadian OTC Derivatives 2025 Annual Report (the Report). The Report gathers publicly available data in one place, providing transparency and summarizing key features of Canada’s OTC derivatives markets in 2025 for investors and other market participants. The Report looks at general characteristics and describes statistical trends and observations. Some highlights, include: New sections on commodities, Ontario-specific analysis and new metrics on turnover and risk. Canada’s OTC derivatives market has increased 12.2 per cent in the fourth quarter year-over-year to $121 trillion in 2025, up from CAD $108 trillion in 2024. Canada’s share of the global OTC derivatives market, as measured by gross notional outstanding, was 9.2% as of June 2025. Rule amendments and compliance reviews materially improved data quality, correcting previously inaccurate results for outstanding positions, average trade size and new transaction counts. The OSC will continue its efforts to make this data available to investors and other market participants. The mandate of the OSC is to provide protection to investors from unfair, improper or fraudulent practices, to foster fair, efficient and competitive capital markets and confidence in the capital markets, to foster capital formation, and to contribute to the stability of the financial system and the reduction of systemic risk. Investors are urged to check the registration of any persons or company offering an investment opportunity and to review the OSC investor materials available at https://www.osc.ca . – 30 –
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