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SEC seeks public comment on short sale disclosure

04 May 2011 Washington D.C.
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published on its website a request for public comment on the feasibility, benefits, and costs of two short selling disclosure regimes...

OneChicago reports April volume

04 May 2011 Chicago
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

OneChicago has reported that 331,209 security futures contracts traded at the exchange in April 2011...

NorthPoint prime services division enhances offering

04 May 2011 New York
Reporter: Justin Lawson

NorthPoint's prime services and technologies business has enhanced its offering for traditional mutual funds that are looking to employ alternative investments, including trading in shorts, options and futures as part of their overall strategy...

Clearstream and Euroclear set new securities framework

03 May 2011 Brussels
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Euroclear Bank and Clearstream have developed a new industry framework to increase transparency and efficiency for the issuance and asset servicing of international securities in collaboration with the International Securities Market Advisory Group (

DEER warns on illegal short selling

03 May 2011 New York
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Deer Consumer Products has said it has received additional evidence of continuing illegal short selling in DEER stock...

Jarvis exits UBS

03 May 2011 Hong Kong
Reporter: Ben Wilkie

Ashley Jarvis has resigned from his position as global head of business and capital consultancy UBS' prime brokerage operations in Hong Kong...

OCC securities lending volumes continue to rise

02 May 2011 Chicago
Reporter: Justin Lawson

OCC figures show overall cleared volumes reached 338,562,433 contracts in April, representing a 7 percent decrease from April 2010. However, volume decline was primarily in options contracts as securities lending volumes continued to rise.....

Naked short selling relief

02 May 2011 Canberra
Reporter: Justin Lawson

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has made a minor amendment to ASIC Class Order [CO 09/774] Naked short selling relief for market makers ([CO 09/774]), which allows licensed market makers to short sell securities in the....

Aggressive short selling fund changes name

01 May 2011 New York
Reporter: Steven Lafferty

Midas Special Fund, a mutual fund investing aggressively for capital appreciation, has changed its name to Midas Magic, Inc. The Fund will continue to be available under its current ticker symbol, MISEX.

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