Sweden – FI Nordnet Bank Short Selling Fine

Sweden – FI Nordnet Bank Short Selling Fine

On 13 June 2025, SWE Courts announced Administrative Court upheld SWE FI decision to issue reprimand to Nordnet Bank AB, as well as imposition of SEK 100mn penalty.

  • It found Nordnet's intraday shorting service has not met regulatory requirements.
  • Nordnet has shortcomings in internal guidelines and procedures, risk management and risk assessment, and in its care for its customers is deficient.
  • Offered certain active and well-capitalized customers service for intraday short selling.
  • Bank did not check there were enough shares available before allowing customers to short shares, led to risk of short selling without coverage/naked short selling (banned).
  • One large-scale naked short selling took place involving approximately 430,000 shares.
  • Nordnet already noticed shortcomings in procedures in 2018 but continued to offer the service to its customers and the actions mean it failed to care for its own customers
  • Customers risked committing rules' violations themselves by using a deficient service.