 Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Rob Cook from the CSE. How are you today Rob? I'm just great. Thanks Tracy. So let me ask you in the new edition of the market drivers Where are we taking you to? Oh back to the office. I got to work. Well, of course you have to work How many new listings have you had since I saw you last roundabout? Oh about 20 That was just a month ago right So in other words you continue to progress with your hockey stick. Yeah Expansion and growth. Oh, yeah, it's it's been it's been very gratifying this year You know we we profited from a fairly buoyant market, but At the same time, we're just getting people coming at us from all directions. So they They come to raise money Raised a lot of money our listed companies in November raised something like 1.2 billion dollars. I mean last year I think it was three and a half in the year Yeah, so it's it's it's around about five billion so far this year. So that's that's been great. Well, I think there's a lot of Incorrect data out there. So I I'm so happy you're able to join us. So is this market specific? I mean, I know there's rumors on the street. Oh, it's all cannabis growth But I've seen other types of companies list on the CSE. Can you talk to us about that? You have Well, we've had some interesting Tech companies list recently one called nerds on-site and they offer, you know, like sort of desktop support to Small businesses. They've been in business for 23 years They're located in London, Ontario, and they're doing a big expansion in the United States. They did an IPO Just listed a couple of weeks ago. Well, that's an excellent example because we had investor intel actually utilize nerds on-site But I think it's an excellent example where there's a misnomer's out there that many of your clients are just Canadian-based and I know nerds on-site for instance have expansion plans into the United States Yes, and many of your companies now are actually Americans coming to list on the CSE. Can you talk to us about that? Well, it's always been a bit cheaper to go public in Canada than in the United States and Currently we've experienced quite a few fairly large companies from the United States Most of them in the cannabis sector Not all of them are Cannabis growers or or sellers a lot of them are more suppliers and silvery businesses We just listed one called Cresco labs and they're in several states and they're providing services to Cannabis growers across the United States. So that's been very interesting And we continue to get a lot of interest from further afield Mexico, Colombia, Jamaica, I'm going to Jamaica in January for capital markets conference there Also Europe in Asia and even Israel So what you're saying is that the CSE is really non-global here in the last year or two or? Yes, we've always had a small number of Foreign issuers and it's still going to be a small proportion of our total list But the the interest is expanding So can you speak to your your market cap sizes now? I mean, I recall five six years ago when companies were electing where to list or doing their research many of the companies on the CSE were quite Microcaps right small, but now you have some fairly large players. It's right I mean our average market cap size used to be a little under ten million dollars now. It's over 30 and We've got about 30 companies right now with the market cap of at least a hundred million dollars We didn't use to have that and we've We've got a couple now that are over a billion So that's that's been quite good. I think the largest topped out around three and a half four billion dollars Say I'm a company in London for instance. Yeah What would I do in order to list on the CSE? No, are you talking the UK? Are you talking in Canada? So, uh, yes the UK Right. Okay. Well, the simple thing is is you know to go public in Canada first of all and if you do like there's a new Small market in in the UK called any acts or necks and they will recognize the CSE listed company and You know listed on the basis that it's already listed on the CSE We tend to help the companies that come to us. We introduce them to the capital markets Find them legal and accounting services Introduce them to investment dealers that can raise them capital that kind of thing. So Haven't seen a lot of companies come from the UK But we've recently had a couple that caught up and said yeah, just what is it about the CSE that's attracting so many companies We're quite interested. Well, let me ask you that question then What is attracting these companies to the CSE? What do you think your competitive advantage is? well, our competitive advantage has always been that We're we're very cost-effective Our mission statement is to lower the cost of capital for emerging companies that are going public and We've had some success at doing that So that has resulted in increased activity increased activity has resulted in more visibility For the companies and it's attracted more interest Well, Rob, thank you so much for squeezing us in today. We're almost at the CSE Okay, that's good because I got to go back because we're gonna approve two more companies probably within the hour