The Form F-7 POS Files Dataset packages every EDGAR submission of form type F-7 POS — post-effective amendments to Form F-7 registration statements filed by Canadian issuers under the U.S./Canada Multijurisdictional Disclosure System (MJDS) of the Securities Act of 1933. Each record is one full per-accession bundle: a structured metadata.json describing the submission together with every non-image narrative document the registrant submitted, including the post-effective amendment cover, the English and French short-form prospectuses, the Canadian continuous-disclosure exhibits incorporated by reference, and refreshed auditor consents. The filer is always the Canadian issuer that originally registered a rights offering on Form F-7, signing under the same EDGAR file number as the parent registration. The dataset begins December 2008 — the start of the EDGAR electronic record for this form type — and runs through the present, distributed as monthly ZIP archives keyed by year and month.
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The dataset captures the post-effective amendment lifecycle of MJDS rights-offering registrations. Form F-7 itself is a registration statement form available exclusively to Canadian issuers under the MJDS regime jointly adopted by the SEC and the Canadian Securities Administrators in 1991; it registers securities offered for cash on the exercise of rights granted pro rata to existing security holders. The F-7 POS form type is the post-effective amendment to such a registration — a filing that revises, supplements, or refreshes an effective F-7 to reflect a price reset, an extended subscription expiry, restated material change disclosure, refreshed auditor consents, or substitution of the Canadian disclosure documents that the registration incorporates by reference.
Because F-7 is an MJDS short-form prospectus, post-effective amendments typically rely on Rule 467(a) for immediate effectiveness on filing, and the substantive offering disclosure lives in Canadian short-form prospectuses incorporated by reference rather than in a freshly drafted SEC-style prospectus. The dataset covers the full population of F-7 POS accessions in the EDGAR electronic record from December 2008 forward; earlier paper-era amendments under the 1991 MJDS regime predate the electronic record and are not included. Containers are distributed in ZIP format with HTML and JSON file types preserved per accession.
One record in the Form F-7 POS Files dataset is a single EDGAR submission of form type F-7 POS — that is, one post-effective amendment to a previously effective Form F-7 registration statement, identified by its 18-character SEC accession number. A record is not an extracted disclosure field, an individual exhibit, or a parsed item; it is the full per-accession bundle that EDGAR received, made up of a structured metadata.json file plus every non-image document the registrant submitted under that accession (the post-effective amendment itself together with all narrative exhibits).
The dataset is distributed as a hierarchy of monthly ZIP archives keyed by year and month (YYYY/YYYY-MM.zip). Each archive opens onto a single YYYY-MM/ directory whose children are accession-number folders named with the 18-digit accession number with dashes stripped (e.g., 0001193125-15-288018 becomes 000119312515288018). Each accession folder is one dataset record and contains:
metadata.json — the structured EDGAR-header description of the filing.d<jobId>d<doctype>.htm, e.g., d943697df7pos.htm, d943697dex24.htm).The folder structure is uniform regardless of how many records fall in a given month.
Every .htm file in an accession folder is an EDGAR SGML-wrapped document, not a clean HTML file. The first lines are SGML header tags — <DOCUMENT>, <TYPE>, <SEQUENCE>, <FILENAME>, <DESCRIPTION>, <TEXT> — followed by the actual <HTML>...</HTML> body and trailing </TEXT> and </DOCUMENT> closers. The header tags carry the EDGAR document type (e.g., F-7 POS, EX-2.4), the document's position in the submission, the original filename as submitted, and a short description; these mirror exactly the corresponding entry in metadata.json -> documentFormatFiles. Consumers that treat these files as plain HTML must skip or strip the SGML envelope first; the envelope is, however, the canonical place to read EDGAR document type, sequence, and original filename without round-tripping through metadata.json.
The metadata.json for an F-7 POS record carries the EDGAR-level descriptors of the submission and an inventory of every document EDGAR received. Top-level fields include:
formType — fixed at "F-7 POS".accessionNo — the dashed accession number.filedAt — ISO-8601 timestamp with EDGAR-local offset.description — human label, typically "Form F-7 POS - Post-effective amendment to a F-7 registration".id — opaque dataset record identifier (md5-like hex).linkToFilingDetails — sec.gov URL to the primary document.linkToHtml — sec.gov URL to the EDGAR filing-index page (...-index.htm).linkToTxt — sec.gov URL to the raw concatenated SGML submission .txt.linkToXbrl — empty string for F-7 POS.documentFormatFiles[] — one entry per submitted document, including image files. Per-entry fields are sequence (numeric string), type (EDGAR document type), description, documentUrl, and size (byte count as a string). The trailing complete-submission text-file row uses a single space for sequence and type, and the description "Complete submission text file".dataFiles[] — empty array for F-7 POS (no XBRL/data attachments).seriesAndClassesContractsInformation[] — empty array (used only for fund filers).entities[] — one entry per EDGAR entity associated with the submission. For an F-7 POS this is normally just the registrant. Entity fields include companyName (with the role parenthetical preserved verbatim, e.g., "Synodon Inc. (Filer)"), cik (CIK, 10-digit zero-padded), type (role-aligned form type), act ("33" — F-7 always files under the Securities Act of 1933), fileNo (the parent F-7 registration's 333- file number), filmNo, sic (SIC code with description), irsNo, stateOfIncorporation, and fiscalYearEnd (MMDD).Two entity-level conventions are characteristic of MJDS filings: irsNo is routinely reported as "000000000" for Canadian issuers that have no US Employer Identification Number (this is structural, not missing data), and stateOfIncorporation resolves to a Canadian province code (for example A0 Alberta, A1 British Columbia, A8 Ontario, A2 Manitoba, A6 Quebec) rather than a US state code.
A typical F-7 POS accession contains the following EDGAR document types, each appearing as one HTML file in the accession folder (with image files excluded from the ZIP):
F-7 POS (sequence 1) — the post-effective amendment itself. The HTML opens with the EDGAR cover page: "As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on <date>", "Registration No. 333-XXXXXX", "Post-Effective Amendment No. N to Form F-7", and "REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933". The cover identifies the Canadian registrant, its province of incorporation, SIC code, IRS Employer ID (often "None"), Canadian principal-office address, and the US agent for service of process — frequently Puglisi & Associates (Newark, DE) or CT Corporation. Copies-to counsel blocks list firms on both sides of the border. The cover concludes with the MJDS Rule 467(a) effectiveness legend ("shall become effective upon filing with the Commission in accordance with Rule 467(a)"). The body of the amendment is normally short: it commonly amends the registration by reference to the short-form prospectus filed as exhibit, lists Part II items (indemnification of directors and officers, list of exhibits keyed to Item 5 of Form F-7, and undertakings), and ends with the signature page executed in the registrant's home province.EX-2.4 — English-language Canadian short-form prospectus. The substantive offering disclosure for the rights offering. Large HTML, with embedded <IMG SRC="..."> references to logos and scanned prospectus pages.EX-2.5 — French-language short-form prospectus. The Quebec-mandated French counterpart of EX-2.4 when the offering reaches Quebec. Treated as a parallel document, not a duplicate.EX-2.10 and other EX-2.x — Canadian continuous-disclosure documents incorporated by reference. Most commonly a material change report on Form 51-102F3 under National Instrument 51-102 (Continuous Disclosure Obligations), but the EX-2 numbering also accommodates annual information forms, MD&A, audited financial statements, business acquisition reports (Form 51-102F4), and other NI 51-102 documents that the issuer brings into the SEC registration by reference.EX-3.1 — consent of independent auditors. Short consent letter (e.g., from Ernst & Young LLP, KPMG LLP) covering use of the audit report on the issuer's financial statements within the registration statement; required because the prospectus relies on audited financials incorporated by reference. A post-effective amendment that refreshes incorporated financials carries a fresh consent dated near the amendment's filing date and naming the audit firm of record at that time.GRAPHIC — logos and scanned-page images. Catalogued in documentFormatFiles but the binary payloads (typically JPGs) are intentionally not extracted into the ZIP archives.The exhibit numbering follows the Form F-7 instructions, where Item 5 of the form catalogues exhibits: the EX-2.x series corresponds to documents incorporated by reference, EX-3.x to consents, EX-4.x to powers of attorney, and so forth. Not every accession will carry every category; minor post-effective amendments may consist only of the F-7 POS document plus a refreshed auditor consent.
Per accession, the dataset includes the full set of EDGAR-submitted narrative documents that are HTML/text in nature (the post-effective amendment, every exhibit — English and French short-form prospectuses, incorporated Canadian disclosure documents, auditor consents, and any other narrative exhibits) together with the structured metadata.json describing the submission and its entity. The HTML files are preserved with their original SGML envelopes intact, so the EDGAR document type, sequence, and original filename remain recoverable directly from the file content.
GRAPHIC documents). Logos, scanned signature pages, and scanned prospectus images are not extracted into the ZIP, even though they are referenced both in documentFormatFiles and via <IMG> tags inside the exhibit HTML. Image references inside exhibits will therefore not resolve against the local extract; this matters when rendering full prospectuses that depend on scanned pages or logos for visual context..txt. The raw concatenated SGML submission archived by EDGAR is referenced via linkToTxt in metadata but is not bundled — the dataset distributes the per-document HTML decomposition instead.linkToXbrl and dataFiles[] are empty by construction.F-7 POS document itself but in the exhibits — primarily the EX-2.4 and EX-2.5 short-form prospectuses, supplemented by EX-2.x continuous-disclosure documents. The post-effective amendment HTML is typically a thin wrapper of cover page, Part II items, and signatures, so retrieval that targets the F-7 POS document alone will miss the offering economics, risk factors, and registrant business description.EX-2.4 and EX-2.5 as parallel English/French expressions of the same disclosure; deduplication that collapses them risks losing the language-specific source of record.entities[].irsNo = "000000000" and entities[].stateOfIncorporation resolving to an A0–B0 Canadian province code are structural conventions for MJDS filers, not data anomalies.entities[].fileNo field points to the parent F-7 registration (the original 333--prefixed file number), so a record can be linked back to the originating F-7 and to any sibling F-7 POS amendments filed against the same registration..htm file means that naive HTML parsers will fail on the leading header tags. Strip the envelope before HTML parsing, or read the type/sequence/filename directly from the wrapper when those values are needed without consulting metadata.json..txt body documents do not appear in records.The filer is always the Canadian issuer that originally registered a rights offering on Form F-7 under the U.S./Canada Multijurisdictional Disclosure System (MJDS, adopted by SEC Release No. 33-6902, 1991). A Form F-7 POS is a post-effective amendment to that same registration statement, signed by the same registrant under the same EDGAR file number.
Form F-7 is restricted to a narrow class of foreign private issuers. To use it, the registrant must:
The rights themselves must be granted to existing security holders on terms that do not discriminate against U.S. holders, and the offering must be for cash on the issuer's own securities (or, in limited cases, an affiliate's). Investment companies and commodity pools are not eligible. Non-MJDS Canadian issuers, U.S. domestic issuers, and other foreign private issuers must instead use Form S-1, Form S-3, Form F-1, Form F-3, or Form F-4.
Underwriters, dealer-managers, subscription agents, and the security holders receiving the rights appear in the disclosure but never file the F-7 POS in the registrant capacity.
Form F-7 POS filings are event-driven, not periodic. The amendment is required when the issuer must update, correct, or supplement an already effective F-7 while the rights offering is still live. Typical triggers:
Because Form F-7 incorporates the Canadian rights offering circular by reference, anything that materially alters the underlying Canadian record generally forces a corresponding U.S. POS so the SEC-registered prospectus matches what is delivered to holders in both countries.
Form F-7 is a Securities Act of 1933 registration form. Post-effective amendments are governed by:
On the Canadian side, the substantive disclosure is produced under Canadian Securities Administrators national instruments: NI 41-101 (general prospectus requirements), NI 44-101 (short-form prospectus distributions), NI 44-102 (shelf distributions, where relevant), and NI 51-102 (continuous disclosure obligations supporting MJDS eligibility). An amended Canadian prospectus under NI 41-101 / NI 44-101, or a material change report under NI 51-102, is typically the proximate event that drives the U.S. POS.
The SEC treats the F-7 POS as a continuation of the original registration: same file number, same registrant, integrated with the existing prospectus for Section 11 liability and delivery purposes.
There is no fixed deadline. Filings are made promptly once a triggering event is finalized, and are usually filed in close coordination with (often the same day as) the corresponding Canadian amendment so the U.S. registration does not lag the Canadian disclosure record. Under Rule 467(a), the POS can become effective on filing where the Canadian document has been receipted and no delaying amendment is used, keeping the two jurisdictions synchronized.
Form F-7 POS sits at the intersection of three SEC structures: the Multijurisdictional Disclosure System (MJDS) for Canadian issuers, the rights-offering registration channel under the Securities Act of 1933, and the post-effective amendment mechanism. Its closest neighbors fall into four groups: other stages of the F-7 lifecycle (F-7, F-7/A), sibling MJDS forms (F-8, F-10, F-80, 40-F, 6-K), non-MJDS foreign issuer registrations (F-1, F-1/A, F-3), and US-domestic post-effective equivalents (S-1 POS, S-3 POS) plus Rule 424 prospectus filings.
F-7 is the parent filing that an F-7 POS amends. Same issuer eligibility (MJDS-qualified Canadian filer), same security type (rights offered pro rata to existing holders for cash), same Canadian-prospectus disclosure model. The distinction is purely lifecycle: F-7 establishes the registration pre-effectiveness; F-7 POS modifies it after effectiveness. Document anatomy is similar, but F-7 POS carries amendment cover language and typically a redlined or restated prospectus rather than an initial one.
Form F-7/A and F-7 POS are both amendments to the same parent F-7, separated by the effectiveness line. F-7/A is filed during SEC review, usually to respond to staff comments or revise disclosure before effectiveness. F-7 POS is filed after effectiveness to update the prospectus for material developments, extend the offering period, deregister unsold securities, or correct post-effective issues. Issuer, security, and jurisdictional framework are identical; the legal posture (pre- vs. post-effective) and triggering events differ.
F-8 and the now-largely-superseded F-80 are MJDS forms used by Canadian issuers to register securities issued in exchange offers and business combinations. Same issuer pool and jurisdictional framework as F-7, but the underlying transaction is securities-for-securities rather than cash-for-rights. F-7 POS will never cover an exchange offer; F-8/F-80 will never cover a rights offering. Sibling forms, mutually exclusive transactions.
F-10 is the most expansive MJDS form, available to larger Canadian issuers for most offering types, including underwritten public offerings, shelf takedowns, and debt. Compared with F-7, it requires higher public float thresholds and a longer reporting history, and it is not transaction-specific. F-7 is narrower and purpose-built for rights offerings to existing holders. The structural twin to F-7 POS in this family is F-10 POS, which applies the same post-effective mechanism to the broader F-10 universe.
F-1 is the standard registration for foreign private issuers that do not qualify for or do not elect MJDS. It requires US-form Regulation S-K-equivalent disclosure, often with US GAAP reconciliation, and is not transaction-specific. F-7 POS, by contrast, is restricted to Canadian MJDS issuers, restricted to rights offerings, and benefits from the MJDS regime that lets the Canadian home-jurisdiction prospectus stand largely intact. Form F-1/A is the pre-effective amendment counterpart on the non-MJDS side, parallel in mechanism to F-7/A but governed by US disclosure standards.
F-3 is a short-form shelf registration for seasoned foreign private issuers, used for delayed or continuous offerings. Both F-3 and F-7 are foreign-issuer registrations, but F-3 is non-MJDS, shelf-based, and not transaction-specific, with takedowns documented through Rule 424 supplements rather than post-effective amendments. F-7 POS amends a discrete rights-offering registration; the two regimes do not substitute.
S-1 POS and S-3 POS are the structural mirrors of F-7 POS for US domestic issuers. The post-effective amendment mechanism, document anatomy (amended prospectus, revised exhibits, updated disclosure), and Securities Act foundation are closely parallel. The differences are issuer eligibility (US domestic vs. Canadian MJDS), disclosure regime (Regulation S-K vs. Canadian home-jurisdiction prospectus), and registration scope (any offering type for S-1; shelf primary/secondary for S-3; rights-only for F-7). Together with F-1 POS, F-3 POS, and F-10 POS, they form a coherent cross-regime POS family.
Form 424B filings deliver final-form or supplemented prospectuses after effectiveness without amending the registration statement itself. F-7 POS is a formal amendment to the registration statement and typically includes a revised prospectus inside the amendment; 424B is a standalone prospectus filing. The legal mechanism (supplement vs. amendment) and the document anatomy (prospectus only vs. amendment cover plus prospectus plus exhibits) differ. An issuer may use 424B for routine prospectus delivery and F-7 POS for substantive post-effective changes that require amendment.
40-F is the MJDS annual report filed by Canadian issuers in lieu of Form 10-K or Form 20-F. Same MJDS jurisdictional framework as F-7 POS, but a completely different function: periodic financial and operational disclosure rather than transaction-specific registration. 40-F is recurring and comprehensive; F-7 POS is event-driven and offering-specific. Complementary, not overlapping.
Form 6-K is the furnishing channel for foreign private issuers to surface material information already made public under home-jurisdiction or stock-exchange rules. A Canadian issuer running a rights offering may file a 6-K announcing launch or pricing alongside an F-7 POS that formally amends the registration. The 6-K is narrative current-disclosure (analogous in spirit to 8-K); F-7 POS is a registration-statement amendment. Different legal effect, different document anatomy.
F-7 POS is defined by the conjunction of four constraints that no neighboring dataset satisfies simultaneously:
Relax any one constraint and the filing falls into an adjacent category: F-7 (pre-effective stage), F-7/A (pre-effective amendment), F-8/F-80 or F-10 (different MJDS transaction or scope), F-1/F-1/A or F-3 (non-MJDS foreign issuer), S-1 POS or S-3 POS (US domestic equivalent), 424B (prospectus rather than amendment), or 40-F and 6-K (periodic or current disclosure rather than registration). Because the dataset is so narrowly scoped, it is small and most useful when joined with the underlying F-7, the issuer's 40-F, and contemporaneous 6-K filings to reconstruct a complete picture of a Canadian rights offering.
The user base for the Form F-7 POS Files Dataset is small and specialized; each role reads a different slice of the same record.
MJDS practitioners use prior F-7 POS filings as drafting precedent for new rights offerings and amendments. They focus on the amendment cover, the explanatory note, the subscription-privilege description, oversubscription and standby language, and the exhibit index (auditor consents, legal opinions, dealer-manager agreements). The dataset answers a recurring drafting question: which changes warrant a POS versus a sticker supplement, and which exhibits must be re-filed.
Capital-markets desks structuring Canadian rights offerings into the US benchmark deal terms across MJDS comparables. They extract subscription price, subscription ratio, record and expiration dates, transferability, oversubscription mechanics, standby or backstop arrangements, and dilution. POS filings matter specifically because they capture final pricing and revised timetables, which feed comp books and fee precedents for new mandates.
SEC reporting staff and Canadian outside counsel use the dataset to scope filing checklists for their own amendments. They focus on the cover, the explanatory note, certifications, consents, and the CIK linkage between a POS and its parent F-7 to see how peers handled re-filed exhibits, Canadian wrapper documents, and tax disclosure updates.
Rights-offering arbitrageurs treat the most recent F-7 POS as the authoritative source on currently effective terms. They size positions and decide whether to exercise, sell, or hedge based on subscription price versus market price, rights ratio, transferability, expiration date, standby presence, and oversubscription rules. Missing an amendment that shifts price or timing translates directly into trading loss.
Corporate-actions and custody operations communicate offering parameters to US holders of the Canadian security. They pull record date, ex-rights date, expiration date, subscription ratio, subscription price, and the prospectus procedure for US-holder exercise. The metadata block (CIK, accession, filing date) anchors the event in internal corporate-action systems.
Teams handling election capture, cash collection, share issuance, and book entries need the operative prospectus to verify the exercise window, subscription agent address, per-right entitlement, and US-holder procedures. They use the metadata file as a programmatic key into event-management systems.
Analysts covering the issuer use the final POS terms to update share-count walks, dilution estimates, and target-price models post-offering. The subscription price, ratio, and any standby commitment drive the pro-forma cap table.
Capital-structure and activism-defense teams study how Canadian issuers have deployed rights offerings in recapitalizations and contested situations. They look at dilution magnitude, standby investor presence, participation conditions, and the timing of POS amendments relative to other corporate events to advise boards on offering design.
Finance, law, and accounting researchers use the bounded corpus for empirical work on MJDS adoption, rights-offering discounts, and signaling by foreign private issuers. The CIK and jurisdiction-of-incorporation fields let them join F-7 POS records to broader EDGAR and Canadian regulatory datasets; filing and amendment dates anchor event studies.
Data engineering teams parse the prospectus HTML for subscription price, ratio, and expiration, and use the structured metadata (form type, filer CIK, accession number, filing date) as the primary key. POS filings are the overwrite events for previously published terms; missing one propagates errors across every downstream client.
Teams building EDGAR question-answering systems use F-7 POS as a small, well-bounded test corpus for amendment-aware retrieval, where the system must reason about which version of a filing's terms is currently operative.
In summary, lawyers and in-house counsel read the amendment cover and exhibit index; bankers, investors, and analysts read the subscription-economic terms; operations and corporate-actions teams read the procedural prospectus detail; researchers and data engineers read the metadata and CIK linkage. The form is low-volume, but each user group has a distinct, identifiable workflow tied to specific fields in the record.
Form F-7 POS records support a small set of distinct workflows. Each one keys off a specific document class or metadata.json field rather than the filing as a whole.
A securities lawyer drafting a post-effective amendment for a Canadian client pulls the F-7 POS cover document and the Item 5 exhibit list across prior accessions to compare amendment cover language, the Rule 467(a) effectiveness legend, indemnification undertakings, and how peers re-filed EX-3.1 auditor consents versus repackaging the full EX-2.4 prospectus. The output is a clause-level precedent file and an exhibits-to-refile checklist for the new amendment.
An event-driven desk and a broker corporate-actions team parse EX-2.4 (and EX-2.5 where present) for subscription price, rights ratio, record and expiration dates, transferability, oversubscription mechanics, and any standby commitment. Because an F-7 POS overwrites the operative terms of the parent F-7, the most recent record per entities[].fileNo (the parent 333- number) becomes the authoritative term sheet feeding exercise-versus-sell decisions and US-holder corporate-action notices.
A data engineer building a corporate-action master record joins each F-7 POS to its parent registration via entities[].fileNo and groups sibling amendments by cik plus file number. The output is a versioned timeline per offering — original F-7, any F-7/A pre-effective amendments, and each F-7 POS in filedAt order — that powers overwrite logic in downstream subscription-terms feeds.
In-house SEC reporting staff at an MJDS filer reconstruct their own amendment history by pulling every accession with matching cik, then verifying for each one that entities[].stateOfIncorporation resolves to the correct province code, that entities[].irsNo is "000000000", and that the EX-3.1 auditor consent matches the firm of record on the financials incorporated by reference at that filing date. The result is an audit-ready binder mapping each amendment to its triggering event and refreshed exhibits.
A data team building a parallel English-French corpus pairs EX-2.4 and EX-2.5 HTML within the same accession, strips the SGML envelope, and aligns sections of the short-form prospectus by heading. The output is an aligned bilingual training set for translation QA and for downstream extraction systems that need a single term-sheet view across both language versions.
Finance and law researchers use the bounded F-7 POS corpus, joined to parent F-7 filings and contemporaneous 40-F and 6-K records by cik, to measure MJDS rights-offering discounts, the frequency of price-reset amendments, and the time between original effectiveness and post-effective repricing. The filedAt timestamp and parent fileNo anchor event-study windows.
Developers building amendment-aware EDGAR question-answering systems use the dataset as a closed test set for "what are the currently operative terms" queries. Retrieval must rank the latest F-7 POS for a given parent file number above earlier amendments and the original F-7, and must route economic questions to EX-2.4/EX-2.5 rather than to the thin F-7 POS cover document. The corpus's small size and clear lifecycle make it a clean benchmark for amendment-resolution logic.
The Form F-7 POS Files Dataset is available through three access patterns: a public dataset index JSON API for metadata and container listings, a full archive download, and per-container downloads for incremental retrieval.
Dataset Index JSON API: https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-f7-pos-files.json
This endpoint returns dataset-level metadata (name, description, last updated timestamp, earliest sample date, total records, total size, form types covered, container format, and file types) along with the full list of available container files. Each container entry includes its storage key, size in bytes, record count, last updated timestamp, and a direct download URL. Polling this endpoint is the recommended way to detect which containers have been refreshed in the most recent run and to decide which files to re-download on a day-by-day basis. This endpoint does not require an API key.
Example response:
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{
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"datasetId": "1f13365b-9ae0-6a7d-9d43-a4c17c5bdb74",
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"datasetDownloadUrl": "https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-f7-pos-files.zip",
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"name": "Form F-7 POS Files Dataset",
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"updatedAt": "2026-04-16T08:57:37.711Z",
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"earliestSampleDate": "2008-12-01",
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"totalRecords": 32,
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"totalSize": 825441,
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"formTypes": ["F-7 POS"],
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"containerFormat": "ZIP",
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"fileTypes": ["HTML", "JSON"],
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"containers": [
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{
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"downloadUrl": "https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-f7-pos-files/2015/2015-08.zip",
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"key": "2015/2015-08.zip",
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"size": 41280,
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"records": 2,
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"updatedAt": "2026-04-16T08:57:37.711Z"
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}
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]
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}
Fetch the index with curl:
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curl -o form-f7-pos-files.json \
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https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-f7-pos-files.json
Download Entire Dataset: https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-f7-pos-files.zip?token=YOUR_API_KEY
The complete dataset is available as a single ZIP archive containing every monthly container from December 2008 to the present. This is the simplest option for one-time bulk ingestion. This endpoint requires an API key, supplied either via the Authorization header or the token query parameter.
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curl -o form-f7-pos-files.zip \
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"https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-f7-pos-files.zip?token=YOUR_API_KEY"
Download Single Container: https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-f7-pos-files/2015/2015-08.zip?token=YOUR_API_KEY
Containers are partitioned by year and month. Use the key value from the index JSON to construct the URL and download only the months you need, which is useful for incremental updates after the initial bulk download. This endpoint requires an API key.
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curl -o 2015-08.zip \
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"https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-f7-pos-files/2015/2015-08.zip?token=YOUR_API_KEY"
The dataset covers EDGAR submissions of form type F-7 POS — post-effective amendments to Form F-7 registration statements filed by Canadian issuers under the Multijurisdictional Disclosure System (MJDS). Pre-effective amendments (filed as F-7/A) and the original F-7 registration statements are not included; only post-effective amendments populate this dataset.
One record is a single EDGAR submission of form type F-7 POS, identified by its 18-character SEC accession number. The record is the full per-accession bundle: a structured metadata.json plus every non-image narrative document the registrant submitted under that accession, including the post-effective amendment cover, the English short-form prospectus (EX-2.4), any French-language counterpart (EX-2.5), Canadian continuous-disclosure exhibits (EX-2.x), and refreshed auditor consents (EX-3.1).
The filer is always the Canadian issuer that originally registered the underlying rights offering on Form F-7. To use Form F-7 the registrant must be incorporated under the laws of Canada or a Canadian province or territory, qualify as a foreign private issuer under Securities Act Rule 405, have a class of securities listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange (Tier 1), or another designated Canadian exchange for at least 12 months, and have been subject to and in compliance with the continuous disclosure obligations of a Canadian securities regulator for at least 36 months. Investment companies and commodity pools are not eligible.
Form F-7 POS filings are event-driven, not periodic. There is no fixed deadline — the amendment is filed promptly once a triggering event is finalized, such as Section 10(a)(3) prospectus staleness, an Item 512 fundamental change, a material change in offering terms (subscription price, expiration date, oversubscription privilege), refreshed Canadian disclosure under NI 41-101 / NI 44-101 / NI 51-102, registration of additional securities under Rule 462, or refiled exhibits. Under MJDS Rule 467(a), the POS can become effective on filing where the corresponding Canadian document has been receipted.
The dataset begins December 2008, the start of the EDGAR electronic record for F-7 POS, and runs through the present. Earlier paper-era amendments under the 1991 MJDS regime exist outside the electronic record and are not included.
The dataset is distributed as monthly ZIP archives keyed by year and month (YYYY/YYYY-MM.zip). Each accession folder inside an archive contains a metadata.json plus one HTML file per submitted EDGAR narrative document. Every .htm file retains its original EDGAR SGML wrapper (<DOCUMENT>, <TYPE>, <SEQUENCE>, <FILENAME>, <DESCRIPTION>, <TEXT> tags), so consumers must skip or strip the SGML envelope before parsing as plain HTML.
All three share the same parent registration, the same Canadian MJDS issuer pool, and the same rights-offering security type, but differ by lifecycle stage. F-7 is the original pre-effectiveness registration statement; F-7/A is a pre-effective amendment filed during SEC review; F-7 POS is a post-effective amendment filed after the registration has become effective, typically to refresh the prospectus, update offering terms, or refile exhibits. Only F-7 POS records appear in this dataset.