On 8 October 2018, ASIC issued legislation on relief, updated guidance on short selling. ASIC corporations (short selling) instrument 2018/745 provides legislative relief for ETF market makers to make naked short sales in ETFs and facilitate market making. To rely on the relief, ETF market makers are required to meet additional conditions. Also provides deferred…
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Regulators Send Reminders About Short Selling
Earlier this month, the French regulator, Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) issued a reminder to the market about bearish speculation provisions in its short selling regulations. Specific to their call-out was the dissemination of bearish speculation via the internet and social networks. We are reminded on a fairly regular basis how share prices and markets…
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Hong Kong – SFC Short Selling Fine
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has publicly reprimanded Huatai Financial Holdings (Hong Kong) Limited (Huatai Financial) 1 and fined it $800,000 pursuant to section 194 of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO).
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Hong Kong – HKEX Securities For Short Selling
On 3 August 2018, HKEX updated the designated securities eligible for short selling. 25 additional securities will be eligible for short selling and 48 existing designated securities will be removed from the list. The total number will be 946 after this.
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