Tag: short selling

World Federation of Exchanges cautions against banning short-sales
March 30, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

World Federation of Exchanges cautions against banning short-sales

The Federation advises that the measures to ban short-selling are not achieving the desired effect and unlike other circuit breakers and other safeguards put in place to slow markets down, banning short-selling inhibits orderly markets rather than promote them. Circuit breakers allow investors time to absorb and understand information and making their trade decisions more…

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April 01, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

JFD Bank's Andrey Stoychev talks about market manipulation and how clients can protect themselves

LeapRate Exclusive... Andrey Stoychev has been recently promoted to Executive Director Trading and a Board Member of the multi-asset fintech company JFD Group. The company, on the other hand, after the successful acquisition of the German-based ACON bank has changed its name and combined retail and institutional services under the brand JFD Bank, making the…

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February 19, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

ESMA releases supportive opinion regarding BaFin’s ban on short selling

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has finally released its official opinion regarding the 2-month ban on the short selling of Wirecard AG (Wirecard) shares instituted by the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin). The ban was based on the Short Selling Regulation as an emergency measure, which became effective at 06:00 CET today before the trading session…

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May 29, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

MAS improves transparency on short selling activities in Singapore

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has announced that it will require investors to report their short positions and short sell orders in securities listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX), with effect from 1 October 2018. This will improve transparency on short selling activities in the securities market and enable investors to make more informed…

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May 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC consults on short selling proposals

Australia regulator ASIC announced that it is seeking feedback on various proposals relating to both naked and covered short selling. ASIC’s public consultation coincides with the sunsetting of a number of related class orders, providing an opportunity to review our regulatory approach to short selling. grant legislative relief to allow market makers of certain exchange-traded…

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June 27, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Hong Kong HKEX tightens criteria for short selling stocks

Hong Kong exchange operator HKEX has announced that it is revising the criteria for its designated securities eligible for short selling to reflect the development of Hong Kong's equity market. The revisions are the result of a periodic review under a framework introduced in 2012. Changes to criteria for designated securities eligible for short selling will…

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November 30, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

Is KaloBios the best day trading stock of all time?

In one of our more interesting yet offbeat posts here at LeapRate over the past few months, we reported on a retail trader named Joe Campbell who turned to crowdfunding site GoFundMe to help raise money to cover his more than $100,000 debt to online broker E*TRADE Financial Corp (NASDAQ:ETFC). What did Campbell do wrong? He…

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