On 11 January 2024, ESMA issued paper on 2020 short selling ban impact. ESMA issued working paper on market impacts of the 2020 short selling bans. Follows, ESMA, March 2022, market impact analysis on short selling bans. Follows, ESMA, April 2022 issued final report on short selling review. Overview At height of the COVID-19 related […]
On 12 January 2024, CRO HANFA issued notice for shareholders of PIK from Rijeka. CRO HANFA informed the public that PIK-ESOP d.o.o. has submitted a new request for approval to publish a bid for the takeover of PIK dd since the first one was rejected. The price per share in the first takeover offer was […]
On 11 January 2024, the Netherlands market regulator, Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM) issued another edition of their Market Watch publication, Read the full article.
On 16 January 2024, the FSS issued a response to Bloomberg’s Article on Illegal Short Sales in South Korea (Jan 15, 2024). Bloomberg argued in its article that illegal short selling is not rampant in South Korea as the total illegal short selling by the recently detected four global investment banks is equivalent to 0.001% […]
On 14 January 2024, SK FSS said that it has identified violations against short selling regulations by two global IBs during investigations on top 10 global IBs, found to have submitted non-leveraged short selling orders worth KRW 54bn for total of five stocks. SK FSS will promptly initiate the procedure for disciplinary actions against the […]
On 11 January 204, the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) issued a proposal to support and clarify the short selling framework under UMIR by: adding a new positive requirement in UMIR 3.3 to have prior to order entry, a reasonable expectation to settle on settlement date any order that upon execution would be short selling […]