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What Ventum Financial legally published, but does not want you to read

Every clause below is published by Ventum Financial itself, on its own website, today. The finding is not that the text exists. It is the distance between what a client is shown and what a client agreed to. Read from its own documents on .

Contracting entity: Ventum Financial Corp.

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Ventum Financial Corp. charges $150 a year on an account it treats as inactive, and the same schedule says it may apply that charge to past periods. No menu and no footer on ventumfinancial.com links to that schedule. Ventum does not publish the agreement that governs your account. You read it in the welcome package, after the account is open.

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Contract risk

Harder than average
4.5/10

Where this contract sitsHow far this contract goes, overall. Under 2 is nothing beyond the ordinary; 6 to 9 means several clauses put money you have already earned at risk; 9 and above reads as designed to make payout refusable.

0510
CriticalClauses that can cost you money you have already earned or deposited, or that remove your ability to challenge it.
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FlaggedEvery clause worth knowing about, at all three severities. Ordinary terms that every broker has are not counted.
21
DocumentsHow many of the broker's own legal files this reading is based on. Each one was downloaded and hashed on the date shown.
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ContradictionsPlaces where a promise the broker makes in public is not kept by the clause that governs it.
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How the 21 break downThe same flagged clauses, split by how much each one can cost you. Severity is our reading of the clause, not the broker's label.

Critical1
Warning16
Notice4

section 66 of 115is where the deepest clause sits, 57% of the way into the document it is in

The numbers in this contractFigures taken from this broker's own clauses, so the labels differ from broker to broker. The four in the panel above are the same on every report.

1 of these 4 figures comes from a clause we rate critical, which means it can take your money or your profit rather than only delay it.

Critical$150Fee on an unused account. Jump to the clause this comes from.A $150 yearly fee on an inactive account, chargeable backwards$125Fee you were not shown. Jump to the clause this comes from.Ventum's fee schedule is linked from no menu on its site45 daysTime to complain. Jump to the clause this comes from.45 days to query a trade, 48 hours in futures12In the contract. Jump to the clause this comes from.The agreement that governs your account is not published

What the documents say

21 clauses worth knowing about, worst first, each quoted from Ventum Financial's own files

01

Ventum charges $150 a year on an account it treats as inactive. It can apply that charge to past periods when it decides to, and no Ventum document tells you what makes your account inactive.

Why this matters

A small account can be drained by this fee while you are not looking. The bill can also arrive for years that have already passed, and nothing caps how far back Ventum can go.

Exhibit 1CriticalRarely seen$150

Inactive/Unclaimed Accounts*** $150 per year
Clause Annual Fees (Per Account) in Fees for Specialized Services
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What it costsOn a $1,000 account that sits still, $150 a year is 15% of the balance gone in the first year, before any other charge.

Set against a regulated standard: FCA (UK), CySEC (Cyprus)

Firms licensed by the FCA or by CySEC must set out their charges to a retail client before the service begins, in a form the client can keep. Ventum's schedule prices an inactive account at $150 a year and adds that it may charge the fee on a retroactive basis at its discretion.

Ventum Financial is not licensed by these regulators, so this is a comparison of practice, not a finding of any breach.

Our readingInactivity fees are common. A fee the firm can decide to charge for periods already past, in a schedule that never defines inactivity, is not. You cannot work out in advance what you owe, or when the clock started.

  • Worse together with Exhibit 7The same silence that feeds this fee starts the process that sends your balance to the province.
  • Worse together with Exhibit 2The schedule carrying this fee is the one no menu on Ventum's site links to.
02

Ventum publishes a fee schedule with real amounts on it, $150 to move your account to another firm and $125 a year to hold an RRSP. No menu and no footer on ventumfinancial.com links to it, and it is not in the footer list of eleven legal documents.

Why this matters

You cannot price Ventum before you sign. The relationship disclosure sends you to your advisor for the current schedule instead of to the page where it already sits.

Exhibit 2WarningHarder than usual$125

We strive to provide our clients with clear and concise information regarding their accounts. For this reason, we have prepared a listing of account fees and service charges which may be incurred in the administration of our clients’ account.
Clause Fees for Specialized Services in Fees for Specialized Services
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Set against a regulated standard: FCA (UK)

Firms licensed by the FCA must give a retail client the charges for a service before the service starts. Ventum's schedule took effect in July 2025 and sits on a page its own menus do not reach.

Ventum Financial is not licensed by this regulator, so this is a comparison of practice, not a finding of any breach.

03

When your money changes currency, Ventum acts as principal, sets the rate itself, and earns revenue on the gap between the market rate and the rate you get. That revenue comes on top of the commission, and no Ventum document gives the markup.

Why this matters

Every US dollar trade you settle in a Canadian dollar account pays this, and you cannot see the amount. Ventum can also convert your currency on its own initiative when it considers that advisable.

Exhibit 3WarningStandard wording

In all such transactions and at any time a conversion of currency is made, the firm will act as principal in converting the currency at rates established or determined by the firm or by parties the firm conducts business with.
Clause Foreign Exchange Fees in Fees for Specialized Services
Downloaded from the broker's site on Open the reference
Set against a regulated standard: FCA (UK), ESMA (EU)

Firms under FCA and ESMA rules must give a retail client the costs of a transaction before they trade, including the cost of converting currency. Ventum's schedule says the firm converts as principal at a rate it establishes, and may earn revenue on the difference.

Ventum Financial is not licensed by these regulators, so this is a comparison of practice, not a finding of any breach.

04

You have 45 days to tell Ventum about a transaction you do not recall or an error you spot, and 48 hours on commodity futures. Ventum says that if you do not, your legal claim may be affected.

Why this matters

48 hours is not long for a futures account you check once a week. Ventum's complaint handling page never mentions either deadline, so a client who reads it learns the firm's timetable and not their own.

Exhibit 4WarningHarder than usual45 days

For securities in your accounts, clients must notify Ventum within 45 days if you see any transactions that you do not recall or identify any errors.
Quoted in Relationship Disclosure, p.8
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Set against a regulated standard: FCA (UK)

Someone complaining about an FCA licensed firm has six years from the event, or three years from when they realised, to take the complaint to the independent ombudsman. Ventum's own window to query a transaction is 45 days, and 48 hours on futures.

Ventum Financial is not licensed by this regulator, so this is a comparison of practice, not a finding of any breach.

05

Ventum tells you to review your client account agreement because it holds the contractual terms for your account. That agreement is not on its website. Twelve more documents arrive in a welcome package, after the account is open.

Why this matters

You cannot read what you are signing before you sign it. The risk disclosure, the leverage disclosure, the Statement of Policies and the client fee schedule you will be held to all arrive the same way.

Exhibit 5WarningHarder than usual12

You should also carefully review your client account agreement as it contains the contractual terms which apply to your account(s).
Clause Account documents which will be provided to you in Relationship Disclosure, p.10
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06

Ventum's best execution policy says it trades fixed income for retail accounts on an agency basis only, and holds no bond inventory for retail clients. Its conflicts disclosure says Ventum usually sells bonds as principal, and profits by doing so.

Why this matters

The answer decides whether the bond price you pay carries Ventum's own markup. Two of its published documents give you opposite answers, and the older one is the brochure in your new client package.

Exhibit 6Warning

Ventum trades for retail and institutional accounts on an agency basis only – it does not hold or price a fixed income inventory for sale to retail customers.
Clause Fair Pricing of Fixed Income and other Over-the-Counter (OTC) Trades in Multiple Marketplaces & Best Execution Policy
Read from the broker's site on Open the reference
Our own capture of ventumfinancial.com, taken on Oct 14, 2026The claim, on Fair Pricing of Fixed Income and other Over-the-Counter Trades section, July 2026Visit this page on the broker's siteDownload the full size image file

Three times, one Ventum document says the opposite of another

Ventum's best execution policy, dated July 2026, says it trades fixed income for retail accounts on an agency basis only. Its conflicts disclosure says it usually sells those bonds as principal and profits by doing so. The same policy says Ventum passes no execution cost to clients, while the fee disclosure charges you exchange and ticket charges on every trade. Its privacy policy promises no sharing without your consent, then lists the sharing that needs none.

Documents at odds2 clauses flagged

Ventum's best execution policy says it does not pass the cost of trade execution to clients. Its relationship disclosure says every trade carries a negotiated commission plus certain costs of the transaction, including ticket charges or exchange fees.

Why this matters

Exchange and ticket charges are the cost of execution. You pay them on each trade, whatever the other page says.

Exhibit 9Warning

Ventum does not accept payment for order flow (other than credits we may receive from some marketplaces for active or passive orders) and does not pass on the cost of trade execution to clients.
Clause Conflicts of Interest in Multiple Marketplaces & Best Execution Policy
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The promise box at the top of Ventum's privacy policy says Ventum does not share your personal information with third parties without your consent. Further down, the same policy lists the times it shares without asking you.

Why this matters

Collecting an overdue account from you, and defending a legal action against you, are both on that list. Your consent is not needed for either.

Exhibit 17WarningStandard wording

Your personal information is not sold to, rented to, leased to, or shared with, third parties without your consent
Clause Protecting Your Privacy Means in Privacy Policy
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Our own capture of ventumfinancial.com, taken on Oct 14, 2026The claim, on Protecting Your Privacy Means box at the top of the Privacy PolicyVisit this page on the broker's siteDownload the full size image file
Our own capture of ventumfinancial.com, taken on Oct 14, 2026What the contract says, clause Section 3, Must protect the interests of VentumVisit this page on the broker's siteDownload the full size image file

Where it sits: section 46 of 115 in the Privacy Policy, 40% of the way through.

Ventum's price list exists, and no menu on its site reaches it

Ventum Financial publishes a fee schedule dated July 2025 with real amounts on it, $150 to move your account out and $125 a year to hold an RRSP. No menu and no footer on ventumfinancial.com links to it. On top of that, Ventum sets your currency conversion rate as principal and keeps the difference, prints bond markups only as a net price, and negotiates the commissions and account fees one client at a time.

Cost disclosure3 clauses flagged

Buy a bond from Ventum and your confirmation shows one net price. Ventum does not print the markup inside it, and the relationship disclosure says the amount is available on request.

Why this matters

That markup is the whole cost of the trade for you, and you have to ask to learn what it was. By the time you ask, the trade is done.

Exhibit 8WarningHarder than usual

The security is either “marked up” in the case of a purchase order or “marked down” in the case of a sell order.
Clause Fees and charges for commission-based Advisory Accounts in Relationship Disclosure, p.3
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  • Worse together with Exhibit 6Whether a markup applies at all depends on which Ventum document you read.

Ventum promises at least 60 days written notice before a new fee or a change to its charges. It then carves two things out of that promise: the interest it charges on your account, and the commissions on your trades.

Why this matters

Those two are what most clients actually pay. You find the new number on your statement or your confirmation slip.

Exhibit 18NoticeStandard wording60 days

We will provide you with at least 60 days’ written notice of any new fee or changes to charges.
Clause Notice of price changes in Relationship Disclosure, p.5
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Ventum's relationship disclosure lists low load and back end load funds among the options you pick when you buy a mutual fund. Canadian regulators stopped allowing both for new purchases in June 2022.

Why this matters

A document that still prices a product nobody can sell you has not been checked in years. Read the rest of its fee pages with that in mind.

Exhibit 20Notice

Mutual fund transactions will fall into no load, low load, front-end load, and back-end load (also called deferred sales charge or DSC funds) types.
Clause Fees and charges for commission-based Advisory Accounts in Relationship Disclosure, p.3
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Ventum will not take a stop loss order, and will not follow your resting one

Ventum Financial does not accept stop loss orders at all, so a stop limit is your only automatic exit. Once an unfilled order rests on the default marketplace, Ventum says it will not watch other marketplaces or move it. Its routers never check US prices for a stock listed in both countries, and an instruction you send by email is not acted on.

How your order is handled3 clauses flagged

You cannot leave a stop loss order with Ventum. It says the order type can harm market integrity and can give clients a worse price in volatile markets, so it does not take them at all.

Why this matters

Your automatic exit has to be a stop limit instead. A stop limit does not fill if the price jumps past your limit, so in a fast fall you may still be holding the position.

Exhibit 11WarningRarely seen

Because of the negative impact which Stop Loss Orders can have on market integrity and because they may have a negative impact on the price our clients receive in volatile markets, Ventum does not accept Stop Loss Orders.
Clause f. Stop Limit Orders & Stop Loss Orders in Multiple Marketplaces & Best Execution Policy
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Our readingMost dealers accept stop loss orders and route them. Taking the order type off the menu leaves the stop limit as the only automatic exit, and a stop limit can be skipped over in a gapping market.

Once the unfilled part of your order sits on Ventum's default marketplace, Ventum says it will not monitor prices on other marketplaces or move your order. Its smart routers also never check US markets for a stock listed in both countries.

Why this matters

A better price on another venue can come and go while your order waits in one book. On a stock listed in Toronto and New York, nobody looks at the US price for you.

Exhibit 12WarningHarder than usual

Once entered into the Default Marketplace order book, Ventum will not monitor the prices on other marketplaces or move it to another marketplace.
Clause Standard Order Routing Conditions in Multiple Marketplaces & Best Execution Policy
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Ventum will not accept buy or sell orders or account instructions through its website or by email, and says it is not responsible for orders placed that way. Its insurance site says the same in capitals.

Why this matters

Email your advisor to sell and nothing happens, and the loss while you waited is yours. Use the phone.

Exhibit 14WarningStandard wording

Ventum IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EXECUTION OF ORDERS OR INSTRUCTIONS PLACED THROUGH THE WEBSITE OR VIA E-MAIL.
Clause Limitations on Products and Services; No reliance in Terms and Conditions of Use
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Where it sits: section 20 of 53 in the Terms and Conditions of Use, 38% of the way through.

You get 45 days to spot a trade you do not recognise, and 48 hours in futures

Ventum Financial gives you 45 days to query a transaction you do not recall, and 48 hours on commodity futures. Miss it and Ventum says your legal claim may be affected. Its complaint handling page never mentions either deadline. The website terms also make you fully liable for anything done with your login, and cap what Ventum can owe you for the site at $100.

Your side of the deadline2 clauses flagged

Ventum's website terms make you fully responsible for every activity under your username and password, and you indemnify Ventum against claims from anyone else using them. Ventum has no duty to check who is logging in.

Why this matters

Choose a password that resembles your birthday or your account number and the terms treat you as having contributed to the misuse, and fully liable for it. Nobody can place an order through the site, which limits the damage.

Exhibit 13WarningHarder than usual

You agree to be fully and solely responsible for all activities that occur under your username and password. Ventum is not under any obligation to confirm the actual identity or authority of the user of any username and password.
Clause Restricted Areas and Passwords in Terms and Conditions of Use
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Where it sits: section 14 of 53 in the Terms and Conditions of Use, 26% of the way through.

  • Limited by Exhibit 14No order or instruction can be given through the website at all, so unauthorised access cannot trade the account.

Ventum caps what it can owe you for anything connected with its website at $100, or whatever you paid to use the site, whichever is greater. The same terms disclaim the accuracy of everything on it.

Why this matters

Act on a research note or a price you read on the site and get it wrong, and $100 is the ceiling on Ventum's side.

Exhibit 15NoticeStandard wording$100

In no event will Ventum’s maximum liability to you for all claims proceedings, liabilities, obligations or costs, whether in contract, tort or under any other theory of law or equity, and regardless of any negligence by Ventum or anyone for whom it is responsible, exceed the greater of the amount, if any, paid by you to Ventumfor the use of this Website or $100.
Clause Limitation of Liability in Terms and Conditions of Use
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Where it sits: section 18 of 53 in the Terms and Conditions of Use, 34% of the way through.

A buyer of Ventum's business gets your file, and may never tell you

Ventum Financial's privacy policy hands your personal information to the buyer if the business is sold. You get notice and a way out only if Ventum picks that route. The other route is the buyer promising to keep Ventum's current privacy policy for six months, and Ventum chooses which one applies.

Your data on a sale1 clause flagged

If Ventum sells all or part of its assets, your personal information goes to the buyer. You get notice and a way to pull your data out only if Ventum picks that route over the other one.

Why this matters

The other route is the buyer promising to keep Ventum's current privacy policy for six months. After that the buyer writes its own rules for your file, and nobody has to tell you.

Exhibit 16WarningHarder than usual

Either the new owner must agree to maintain and abide by Ventum’s then existing Privacy Policy for a minimum of six months, or the new owner must agree to Ventum sending notices to all of its current customers advising them of the proposed transfer, the new owner’s privacy policy and providing its customers with an easy and effective means of withdrawing their personal information from the transfer, at Ventum’s option.
Clause Section 5, Sale of Business in Privacy Policy
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Where it sits: section 66 of 115 in the Privacy Policy, 57% of the way through.

Ventum can be paid by the venues it sends your orders to

Ventum Financial's conflicts disclosure says it may be paid by trading destinations, including market makers, for the orders it directs to them. Every retail order in a stock traded only in the US goes to one market maker, Citadel Securities LLC. And your advisor's own holding in a company they recommend reaches you only once it passes 3% of that issuer.

Who pays Ventum2 clauses flagged

Ventum's conflicts disclosure says it may be paid by trading destinations, including market makers, for orders it directs to them. Its best execution policy says it does not accept payment for order flow, apart from credits from some marketplaces.

Why this matters

Where your order goes can pay Ventum, and that payment never appears on your confirmation. Every retail order in a stock traded only in the US goes to one market maker, Citadel Securities LLC.

Exhibit 10WarningStandard wording

We may receive compensation by trading destinations, including electronic communication networks, market makers and exchanges in connection with trades on markets we direct to such destinations through affiliates or directly.
Clause Possible Conflicts and How They Are Managed in Conflicts of Interest Disclosure
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Your advisor can own shares in a company they recommend to you. Ventum tells you on the confirmation slip only once that holding passes 3% of the issuer's outstanding shares.

Why this matters

Below 3%, which covers almost every position in a listed company, nobody tells you. On a small company, 3% is a large personal stake to build before the duty bites.

Exhibit 19WarningHarder than usual3%

If your advisor holds in excess of 3% of the issued and outstanding securities of an issuer, we will advise you on trade confirmation slips that your advisor holds a position in the issuer.
Clause Possible Conflicts and How They Are Managed in Conflicts of Interest Disclosure
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An account you stop using starts costing $150 a year

Ventum Financial prices an inactive account at $150 a year, and adds that it may charge the fee for past periods at its discretion. No Ventum document says what makes an account inactive. Three years without a sign of interest from you also starts the process that sends the balance to your province.

In plain words

Dormancy means an account left unused.

Dormancy costs1 clause flagged

Returned mail, or three years without a sign of interest from you, starts Ventum's unclaimed property process on any balance over $50. Provincial law requires this of every Canadian dealer, and sets when the money leaves Ventum for the government.

Why this matters

Getting it back is on you. Ventum asks for two pieces of identification, one with a photo, proof of your tax number, and a description of an account you may have forgotten.

Exhibit 7WarningStandard wording$50

In general, and subject to individual provincial requirements, the following events will trigger action by Ventum Financial if the amount at issue is greater than $50: (i) a client’s mail is returned to Ventum Financial; (ii) a client’s cheque remains un-cashed and outstanding three years after the date of issue; (iii) a client has failed to respond, by the required date, to a requirement to take a certain action by a given date; (iv) a period of three years has passed without a client indicating an interest in property
Clause Triggering Events in Unclaimed Property Policy
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What happens, and when

The stages this clause runs through, taken from the broker's own document
TriggerWhat the broker may then doClause
Balance over $50Ventum's unclaimed property process can start.Triggering Events
Your mail comes backVentum records a trigger event.Triggering Events
Three years with no sign of interestVentum records a trigger event. A trade, a profile update or a phone call to staff all count as interest.Triggering Events
The provincial deadline passesThe property is designated unclaimed and goes to the province. In Quebec it goes to Revenu Québec.Quebec
You come back for itYou claim in writing, with two pieces of identification, proof of your tax number, and a description of how the account was run.Proof of Claims
  • Worse together with Exhibit 1A $150 yearly fee runs on the same account while the three year clock turns.

The agreement that governs your account is not on Ventum's website

Ventum Financial lists eleven legal documents in its footer and the client account agreement is not one of them. Its own relationship disclosure says that agreement holds the contractual terms for your account, and that twelve more documents arrive in a welcome package after the account is open. Its client protection page still names IIROC, the body merged into CIRO at the start of 2023.

What is published1 clause flagged

Ventum's client protection page rests your CIPF coverage on its membership in the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada. That body merged into the organisation now called CIRO at the start of 2023, and Ventum's other pages name CIRO correctly.

Why this matters

The coverage itself is real and survived the merger. The page that explains it to you has not been corrected since before 2023.

Exhibit 21Notice

Because we are a member of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, all funds invested with us are covered by the Canadian Investor Protection Fund (“CIPF”), which protects the public in case of the insolvency or bankruptcy of a member firm.
Clause Canadian Investor Protection Fund in How Are Your Funds Protected?
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Where the marketing and the contract disagree

A promise made in public, set against the clause that governs it

01

Ventum says it passes no execution cost to clients, and charges you exchange and ticket costs on every trade.

Said in public, in English

Ventum does not accept payment for order flow (other than credits we may receive from some marketplaces for active or passive orders) and does not pass on the cost of trade execution to clients.

Conflicts of Interest section of the Multiple Marketplaces and Best Execution Policy, July 2026

In the contract · clause Fees and charges for commission-based Advisory Accounts

Each transaction will be charged a negotiated commission plus certain costs of the transaction, including ticket charges or exchange fees) at the time of the transaction.

02

One document says Ventum never sells bonds to retail clients as principal, the other says it usually does.

Said in public, in English

Ventum trades for retail and institutional accounts on an agency basis only – it does not hold or price a fixed income inventory for sale to retail customers.

Fair Pricing of Fixed Income and other Over-the-Counter Trades section, July 2026

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In the contract · clause Possible Conflicts and How They Are Managed

In the case of fixed-income securities (which we usually sell as principal) we provide you with a stated yield to maturity so you can assess the competitiveness of our pricing.

03

Ventum calls these charges mainly non-standard transactions, and one of them is a yearly fee for making no transaction at all.

Said in public, in English

Most clients will be unaffected by these fees as they are mainly for non-standard transactions.

Fees and charges for commission-based Advisory Accounts, page 4 of the Relationship Disclosure

In the contract · clause Footnote ***

We may charge inactive fees on a retroactive basis at our discretion.

04

The promise at the top of the policy says no sharing without consent, and Section 3 lists the sharing that needs none.

Said in public, in English

Your personal information is not sold to, rented to, leased to, or shared with, third parties without your consent

Protecting Your Privacy Means box at the top of the Privacy Policy

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In the contract · clause Section 3, Must protect the interests of Ventum

In certain circumstances, Ventum may be required to collect, use or release information for its protection. For example, Ventum may do so when collecting an overdue account, when defending a legal action, to detect or prevent fraud, or to detect or prevent any other illegal or improper activity.

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The documents this reading is based on

17 files, all published by Ventum Financial. Each shows when we read it and a fingerprint of its wording.

WIKILIX keeps the copy of each file it read, and does not republish it: what is published is the fingerprint of its wording. Download the file yourself and hash its text, lowercased with runs of whitespace collapsed, and a matching fingerprint means the wording quoted above is still the wording Ventum Financial publishes.

How this reading was done

Every clause above was read out of a document Ventum Financial publishes itself

This reading was published on .

Documents
10 of 17downloaded from the broker's site, and 10 read in full
Pages opened
80pages walked to find those documents, footer links included
Older copies
1earlier versions downloaded
Marketing pages
11public pages set against what the contract says
Position measured
5clauses whose position was counted: which numbered section of the document holds them, out of how many

Who the contract is with

Ventum Financial Corp.

You contract with Ventum Financial Corp., a Vancouver company registered to advise and trade in securities, futures contracts and futures contract options in every province and territory of Canada. Its own documents say it is a CIRO member and a CIPF participant. Two subsidiaries sit beside it: Ventum Financial (US) Corp. and an insurance company. The insurance business is a separate contract, and the documents name that subsidiary three ways. The relationship disclosure calls it Ventum Financial Services Corp., the privacy policy calls it Ventum Insurance Services Corp., and the insurance site calls it Ventum Insurance Services Corp. Inc.

Quotations are copied verbatim from the documents named above, with the clause number and the page each one came from. Where a clause is quoted in another language, the original is shown first and the English is a translation.

The plain-language parts, what a clause means for a client, how ordinary it is, and how it reads against a regulated standard, are WIKILIX's analysis and are labelled as such on every card. This is a reading of public documents, not legal advice and not an allegation of wrongdoing.

In fairness, and what we could not check

A reader who knows the edges of the work can trust the middle of it

Ventum names its protections instead of implying them. Fully paid securities are kept separate from the firm's own, and CIPF covers your general account up to $1 million if Ventum fails, with separate coverage for registered plans. The complaint page names a Designated Complaints Officer, gives a direct phone number, and promises written acknowledgement in 5 business days and an answer in 90 days. Ventum also promises at least 60 days written notice before any new fee, and its best execution policy lists every marketplace it routes orders to.

This review covers ten of the documents Ventum publishes in full. It covers parts of the fee schedule: its heading, its footnotes, its currency section and selected charges, not every line. It does not cover the Trade Matching Statement or the five declarations of trust for registered plans. The documents a client signs or receives at account opening are not published: the client account agreement, the client fee schedule, the Statement of Policies, and the risk and leverage disclosure statements. Only one earlier copy of any document exists to compare against, the website terms as they stood in April 2026.

How to check any of this yourself

Every quote above links to the Ventum Financial file it came from. This is what to do with it.

Open the three stepsFind the words in the source, work out the fingerprint, and read what a difference does and does not prove.

Open the source and search for the words

Every quote has a link under it. Open the file, or the web page, and search it for the words we quote. The clause number next to the quote tells you where to look.

If the words are not there any more, the source may have changed after we read it. That is worth knowing too. We keep the date we read it, and a code worked out from its wording, so the quote stays checkable.

What a fingerprint is

A fingerprint is a code worked out from what a source says. Change one word and the code changes completely. We keep two codes for every file we read, and the panel on each source shows both.

The first is the code of the exact file we downloaded. The second is the code of its wording alone, with capital letters lowered and runs of spaces collapsed. When the same words are saved as a new file, the first code changes and the second one stays the same.

Only the first code can be worked out on your own computer. Save the file, then run one of these, putting the name of the file you saved where the example is. The panel on each source prints the command with that source's real file name already in it.

macOS or Linux:
  shasum -a 256 the-file-you-saved.pdf

Windows:
  certutil -hashfile the-file-you-saved.pdf SHA256

The two codes are different from each other, and they are not meant to match. Comparing one against the other proves nothing.

What a difference means, and what it does not

A different file code on its own proves nothing. A PDF saved again with a new date inside it is a new file saying exactly the same thing.

A different wording code means the words themselves changed. That is the one that matters, and it is why we keep it.

Even then, a change is not proof of bad faith. Companies update their documents. What this report says is what the document said on the day we read it, and every quote carries that date.

A source that is a web page and not a file has no file to save, so only the code of its wording is shown.

How this report is made

Every clause quoted above comes from a document Ventum Financial publishes on its own website, downloaded and hashed on the date shown, with the clause number and page recorded so any reader can check it. We do not allege anything the documents do not say, and we do not judge Ventum Financial on anything other than its own published terms and its own public marketing. Where a clause has a qualifier that softens it, the report says so. Last read Oct 14, 2026.

If you represent Ventum Financial and a clause has changed, been withdrawn, or is being read out of context, tell us and we will re-read the documents and update this page. Corrections from the broker are welcome and are published with the reading they change. Contact us.

This is a reading of a contract, not legal advice and not a ruling on Ventum Financial. Whether its licence is real and current is a separate check on the broker profile.

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