VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – A company claiming to be the Vancouver Stock Exchange is said to be issuing stock listings, according to a warning from the provincial securities regulator.

Vancouver Stock Exchange Corporation says the old VSE that stopped operating in 1999 was reinstated as an independent exchange in June 2016. Its website is almost entirely in Chinese, and the link to an English version does not work.

The BC Securities Commission says VSEC “appears to have been issuing stock exchange listings to companies in China and BC.” While VSEC says it operates from Kitimat, its enquiry centre is in Shenzhen, China.

The commission says “VSEC is not authorized to operate as an exchange in BC.”

The BCSC is asking anyone with information about VSEC to contact them at 604.899.6854 or 1.800.373.6393, or e-mail them.