Italy’s financial markets regulator banned short selling of shares in major Italian banks after an election result caused shares in them to drop sharply...
CACEIS has honed its collateral management services for UCITS fund managers in the wake of ESMA's consolidated guidelines on exchange-traded funds and other UCITS issues and repo and reverse repo agreements...
22 February 2013Hong Kong Reporter: Georgina Lavers
Almost 30 securities will be added and six existing securities will be removed from the list of designated securities for short selling in Hong Kong...
The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has published a legal opinion on the validity of the Global Master Repurchase Agreement (GMRA) in Russia...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a call for evidence on the evaluation of the Regulation (EU) No236/2012 on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps (SSR)...
IOSCO published a consultation report on Recommendations Regarding the Protection of Client Assets, which aims to help regulators improve the supervision of intermediaries holding client assets...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final guidelines on the exemption for market making activities and primary market operations under the Short Selling Regulation...
31 January 2013Switzerland Reporter: Georgina Lavers
Seventy different firms and associations have crafted replies to the Financial Stability Board's (FSB's) 2012 consultative documents on strengthening oversight and regulation of shadow banking...
The Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC) has decided to once again extend its ban on short selling for a further three months, effective from 1 February...
18 January 2013Switzerland Reporter: Georgina Lavers
The Committee on Securities Lending of the Risk Management Association has responded to the FSB on its proposals to toughen up regulation of “shadow banking”, praising the board’s efforts to understand the sector...
