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CESR Document on Short Selling. March 2010.
The discussion on the advantages and drawbacks of short selling transactions in the securities markets has been one of the significant issues of 2009. Different international organisations have analysed this subject. IOSCO published some principles on Short Selling in June 2009 (in the IOSCO label on the top of this page there is a summary…
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IOSCO Principles on Hedge Funds. March 2010.
On 22 June 2009, IOSCO published the document “Principles on the regulation of Hedge Funds”. IOSCO’s proposals are gathered in 6 principles. Most of them are included in the bill of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMSs), which is under discussion in the European Union, and in they are also included in the current…
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The new European regulation on Credit Rating Agencies. March 2010
The Regulation of the European Parliament and the European Council on Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs), issued on 16 September 2009, establishes, for the first time in Europe, a specific regulation on these Agencies and imposes an obligatory register system and supervision on them. This Regulation requires the inclusion in a register of any CRA which…
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ESMA’s Final Report on the European Commission mandate on certain aspects relating to retail investor protection. International Bulletin, June 2022.
On 27 July 2021, ESMA received a mandate from the European Commission (EC) requesting technical advice on certain aspects relating to retail investor protection. This request falls within the framework of the Retail Investment Strategy that this European institution is preparing, and which it plans to publish in the coming months, one of the main…
