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Desjardins Financial Services Firm Inc. has agreed to pay a $1-million penalty
after industry regulators found it was offering its financial advisers higher compensation to sell its own proprietary mutual funds.
On Wednesday, the Financial Markets Administrative Tribunal approved an agreement between Quebec’s securities watchdog Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and Desjardins Financial Services after an investigation revealed that the company’s compensation structure breached regulatory rules.