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Does Wealthsimple want to add sports, politics to its new prediction markets product?
['Tara Deschamps', 'The Canadian Press']
Brandon Sun
“And that’s fair for them because if my objective was to grow Wealthsimple, that’s what I would do.”
However, she also shared a whitepaper the company released recently outlining how Wealthsimple envisions regulations around prediction markets, including sports contracts, could work in Canada.
The Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization, a national body regulating investment dealers, doesn’t allow prediction market trading on entertainment, sports and politics.
“Sports, more celebrity-related events, political events, that’s the bread and butter of the prediction markets, of Kalshi, of Polymarket.
Offering expanded prediction market trading wouldn’t just be a play to collect fees on every wager.