Short Selling
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SEC Tools to Halt Panics Include Banning Shorts, Shutting Market
By Jesse Westbrook
March 9, 2020, Bloomberg
The coronavirus-fueled sell-off for stocks is prompting traders to ask what else regulators can do to intervene in cascading markets.
The virus’s spread …
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VAR Restrictions ‘Will Hit Returns’ for Sophisticated Traders
By Alexander Campbell
January 4, 2019, Risk
Restricting value-at-risk curbs traders’ returns in both rising and falling markets, with a particularly sharp impact in volatile markets, researchers have found. And, …
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U.K. to Keep E.U. Short-Selling Rules Largely Intact
By Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro
August 10, 2018, Global Investor Group
The British government intends to retain the European Union’s framework for short selling with limited tweaks after it leaves the …
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Funds Adjust Short Bets to Avoid Disclosure Requirements – ESMA
By Andrew Neil
March 20, 2018, Global Investor Group
Hedge funds and other investors are deliberately altering short positions to avoid public disclosure requirements and keep their strategies secret, according …
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ESMA Proposes Changes to Short Selling Regulation
By Andrew Neil
December 21, 2017, Global Investor Group
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has proposed a number of “concrete amendments” to Europe’s short-selling regulation (SSR).
The E.U. …
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Europe’s Short Selling Rules Up for Review
By Sarfraz Thind
November 20, 2017, The Trade
A curious story emerged earlier this year when a man was charged with planting a bomb under the Borussia Dortmund football club …
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ESMA Consults on Refreshing Short Selling Rules
By Vivek Ahuja
July 7, 2017, Financial News
The European Securities and Markets Authority has launched a new consultation into the region’s short-selling rules, and is considering broadening market-makers’ exemption …
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European Regulators Relax CDS, Short Selling Rules
By Julie Aelbrecht
February 22, 2017, Future & Options World
The U.K., German, French, Danish, and Swedish national regulators have widened the exemptions for market makers under European short selling …
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Hedge Funds Alter Strategies in China as Regulatory Crackdown Bites
By Samuel Shin and Michelle Price
September 15, 2016, Reuters
Hedge funds are ditching their ambitions of pioneering Western-style high-speed trading strategies in China’s fledgling equity derivatives market and are …
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MiFID II Review to Look at Systematic Internalizers
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Blast From the Past: EU Tells Traders Working From Home: Take Notes if You Can’t Record Calls
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Blast From the Past: EU Watchdog to Nudge Bond Trades Closer to Real-Time Transparency
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Blast From the Past: Traders Across Europe Face Up to the Cost of Failure
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Blast From the Past: Passive Investing Boom Reaches Europe as Assets Hit $1 Trillion
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MiFID II Review to Look at Systematic Internalizers
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Blast From the Past: EU Tells Traders Working From Home: Take Notes if You Can’t Record Calls
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Blast From the Past: EU Watchdog to Nudge Bond Trades Closer to Real-Time Transparency
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Blast From the Past: Traders Across Europe Face Up to the Cost of Failure
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Blast From the Past: Passive Investing Boom Reaches Europe as Assets Hit $1 Trillion