On 5 February 2024, CHI CSRC shared measures to maintain stability of capital market. Include penalizing market manipulation/malicious short selling, stricter oversight of stock lending, risk management of stock pledge by major shareholders of listed firms.
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Greece – HCMC New Portal for Short Selling Reporting
On 2 February 2024, the regulator in Greece, the HCMC implemented a new portal to report short selling. new system replaces old short selling reporting mechanism and can be found here
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U.K. – FCA .2% Short Selling Threshold Effective
On 5 February 2024, the increase to UK short selling threshold became effective. .2% short selling threshold implemented by FCA replaces previous .1% short selling threshold
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U.K. – FCA Primary Market Bulletin 47 Re: Short Selling
On 26 January 2024, UK FCA issued PMB 47 focused on short selling rules. UK FCA issued primary market bulletin (PMB) 47 that covered Short Selling Regulation developments as well as the Credit Rating Agency UK Market Share Report for 2022. Short Selling Regulation Following consultation process on the UK Short Selling Regulation, UK GVT…
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Spain – CNMV Short Selling RE: Grifols-Gotham
On 23 January 2024, ESP CNMV issued statement in relation to Grifols case. ESP CNMV statement in relation to Grifols and related Gotham City Research report. ESP CNMV has not detected, from Jan. 9 until today, any specific privileged information pending publication representing asymmetric information between different investors. Therefore it has not been necessary to…
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U.K. – BoE Discuss Short Selling
On 22 January 2024, UK BoE issued minutes of November 2023 Securities lending committee meeting. UK FCA updated that UK Treasury had published a draft Statutory Instrument for the new UK short selling regime, and had asked for technical comments from the market. UK Treasury had announced plans to publish the final Statutory Instrument in…
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